My work is all about computer programs/algorithms, and how best to solve problems via logical code via observation of biology
Seems to me to be the way mankind usually comes up with the best solutions for most of our self created problems. Back engineer and plagiarize someone else's imaginative design.
So I think you are guarenteed a win there CP, for the ground work is already done and mostly only a better understanding of it required.
perhaps you are against my data mining techniques to discovering a cure to every cancer that has plagued humans?
Not at all. Go for it if that is what makes you happy. I have a more "the clock is winding down" attitude and approach to existance though and feel that there will only be more and more requirement for the increase of medical knowledge (etc) just to coax each new iteration/generation out of us before humanity becomes not all that different from Daleks in terms of melding decrepit flesh with artificial means of keeping it going.
Anyway, perhaps a better "internet" AND filter for the same could be built if we compared the web to our own nervous and circulatory systems and modelled accordingly ?
regarDS