Recently the Chinese built the world's fastest supercomputer.
In the United States, we turned green with envy and purple with fear and red-faced with embarrassment. Isn't the United States duty to remain the greatest innovator and power house in computers? We have Google! No! It is the United State's duty to remain the greatest innovator, thinker, and holder of all the worlds greatest assets! If we don't, it's a matter of National Security.
Even though there are between 193 and 250 countries in the world and it's not a 'National Security' issue for all of 'em.
This computer could, apparently, do some pretty cool things. Like track all of it's citizens.... or collect terabytes of data. Help soldiers in the field and evaluate trends. It shows us what the consumer will be able to buy for their home computer in 2078.
But no one has mentioned helping a paradigm shift. So it's probably not all that useful. That's what we really need. Part of that Paradigm shift is probably realizing that a 33.860 petaflops computer is not quite so useful to the self-sustenance of a society as a hectare of local vegetables and fruits grown with a mind toward soil perseverance.
National Security? The issues are at home.
In the United States, we turned green with envy and purple with fear and red-faced with embarrassment. Isn't the United States duty to remain the greatest innovator and power house in computers? We have Google! No! It is the United State's duty to remain the greatest innovator, thinker, and holder of all the worlds greatest assets! If we don't, it's a matter of National Security.
Even though there are between 193 and 250 countries in the world and it's not a 'National Security' issue for all of 'em.
This computer could, apparently, do some pretty cool things. Like track all of it's citizens.... or collect terabytes of data. Help soldiers in the field and evaluate trends. It shows us what the consumer will be able to buy for their home computer in 2078.
But no one has mentioned helping a paradigm shift. So it's probably not all that useful. That's what we really need. Part of that Paradigm shift is probably realizing that a 33.860 petaflops computer is not quite so useful to the self-sustenance of a society as a hectare of local vegetables and fruits grown with a mind toward soil perseverance.
National Security? The issues are at home.
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