How can we learn from what mother nature has been doing since the beginning of time? Well as we seek to make computers smaller and smaller how about learning from the original computer builder. Would it be possible to create a DNA strand that would build a computer instead of a person? This is the very question that researchers at Duke University, Rambus Inc. and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been asking themselves. The answet they came up with is "we think so". The size of these computer structures could be so vast that it may be possible to have the answers to all the possible questions you ask already stored within the structure. "We call this kind of computer an oracle because, like the oracles of ancient times, the computer is ready to answer your question as soon as you ask," said Chris Dwyer, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and computer science at Duke. As we all search for sources of new ideas sometimes it is helpful to look at the oldest source of ideas, those created by nature.