[todorus]

That makes it sound all very daunting, but we have a few advantages over nature when it comes to design.

* A single life can produce multiple iterations of a technology. * Current technology speeds up the development of the next iteration.

[dogma1138]

Nature isn’t limited to intentional design tho, I’m not sure what advantage we have when you have a few 1000’s of people trying to progress technology over their life time vs about 7 billion iterations which are governed by natural selection and that is if you only account for a single species.

Also don’t forget that a single life can also produce multiple iterations of itself over its life span.

Designs are limited by what we understand and can imagine as well as other constraints, nature not so much.