A vision of the future
Monday, May 03, 2010
12:15 PM
My vision of the future
Anyone can study global warming on a global scale by tying into the global database of climatological data. 
Anyone can use supercomputing to simulate an experiment or test a hypothesis -- without even knowing it! 
High-school students can use planetary-scale computing!
Anyone can mine social data for references of interest on a global scale -- even continuously. 
This is the ultimate socialism of knowledge (and you note that I did not say "socialization"!)