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Ponce
5th December 2011, 12:37 PM
Sure, computer says that one of this days Ponce will go crazy...... lock him up NOW

Computer is right shhhhhhhhhhhh, don't say anything.

I would say ......."Supercomputer that could predict the future".......that's more like it.
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Monday, December 5, 2011'

Supercomputers’ that can predict the future.

The European Union is all set to fund a 900 million-pound scheme to produce a computer system that could predict spread of diseases and impending financial meltdowns.


The Living Earth Simulator Project (LES), which has been backed by leading scientists, aims to “simulate everything” on the planet, using anything from tweets to government statistics to map out social trends and predict the next economic crisis.

Using vast reams of data fed into the Internet, trends can be spotted by analysing information with “the world’s most powerful computers”.

The man behind the idea has billed it as a “nervous system for the planet”, while academics have backed it as a replacement for current outdated economic models.

“The idea is to gather live information from a huge range of sources and then analyse it using the world’s most powerful computers,” the Daily Mail quoted Dirk Helbing, one of the leaders of the project at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich as telling the Sunday Times.

“Many problems we have today - including social and economic instabilities, wars, disease spreading - are related to human behaviour, but there is apparently a serious lack of understanding regarding how society and the economy work,” he said.

According to Helbing, the LES would be able to predict the spread of infectious disease such as Swine Flu, identify methods for tackling climate change and even spot an impending financial crisis.

It would be filled with huge swathes of data, which would be assembled as-yet-unbuilt supercomputer hardware capable of data analysis on a mammoth scale.

Around 30 leading computer science centres worldwide have already pledged their support for the supercomputer, including three in Britain.

Oxford University, University College London (UCL) and Edinburgh University have also formed the FuturICT consortium to help push ahead with plans for the project.

However, the plans to recreate the entire world in a complex computer system have drawn criticism from some science experts who see the project as too ambitious and unrealistic.

http://refreshingnews9.blogspot.com/2011/12/supercomputers-that-can-predict-future.html

Santa
5th December 2011, 12:52 PM
Using vast reams of data fed into the Internet, trends can be spotted by analysing information with “the world’s most powerful computers”.

The man behind the idea has billed it as a “nervous system for the planet”, while academics have backed it as a replacement for current outdated economic models.


As if they haven't been doing exactly that for years...

Twisted Titan
5th December 2011, 01:23 PM
Skynet is born.

Santa
5th December 2011, 06:27 PM
As much as I love the Internet; almost as much as a baby loves nipples, I kinda hate to say it, but the Internet was designed from its inception to become exactly what the EU is pretending they just thought up.

I know it isn't a popular concept to consider, but the Internet is about to become the cheapest prison cell ever devised.

"The Living Earth Simulator Project (LES),"

Yep. That pretty much sums it up. Living Earth Simulator. The key word is SIMULATOR.

Simulated Life.

Take lots of pictures.

iPods.

I like money.

Buy your way into debt.

Hedonism. Free Drugs.

Slavery.

Planned Obsolescence.

Lucifer.

Ponce
5th December 2011, 06:36 PM
You are right Santa, I for one am a prisoner of my lap top......how do you think I got over 10,000 postings?

I for one say this.......if we were to loose the WWW, cell phones and TV I would not mind it at all......this would give the kids more time to study, for family to be togethermore often and for more safety in driving.

Blink
5th December 2011, 06:42 PM
I thought the article was about the latest excuse for stealing 900,000,000 pounds........ Of course its the EU running it, so the bill will be split equally amongst member states. Billion here, trillion there, oh well.