A review by swetzel9
The Shark's Paintbrush: Biomimicry and How Nature Is Inspiring Innovation by Jay Harman

2.0

If this book was only on the topic of Biomimicry, it would have probably rated higher. That's a fascinating topic and would be a great deep dive to get into. The bits in the book that are straightforward on how technology can be designed to mimic nature-derived designs are the most interesting parts. Unfortunately it feels like the book skims the surface of that, and instead describes the author's own background along with his experience in dealing with starting a company that bases its technology on Biomimicry. I'm not planning on starting a company that does that, so dealing with the biases traditional companies have against nonstandard tech reads more like the author bemoaning why everyone won't just listen to him. Its more memoir than science book, and that's not really what I was hoping to read.