Tags:computing, occam, parallel computing, science, seedbank and transputer
Abstract:
The digital revolution has swept all before it, just as the Green Revolution did a generation ago in agriculture. To avoid monoculture, an analogous response is called for: a Seed Bank conserving old science and technology. With shocking speed, a zero-dimensional, centralized model is displacing a real world that is multidimensional and massively parallel. Dr. Dickson describes real-world responses and simple and urgent changes using both old and new (massively parallel) technology, and prevent lasting damage to science, the economy, and civil society.