Bear, Greg - Blue Yonder Computing by Bear Greg

Author:Bear, Greg [Bear, Greg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-10-30T15:42:51+00:00

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A B B YY.c Whether or not petaflops computers will be digital or analog, neural or non-neural in design, they will be .ABBYY.com

particularly adept at focusing our information telescopes on problems involving chaotic feedback-rich

processes, which I give the general term 'weather.'

Ecoi undergo weather, with equilibrium punctuated by storms of extinction and speciation. Societies also undergo weather; social hurricanes are called wars or revolutions. Money has a kind of weather, with high and low pressure systems, or bull and bear markets, inflation, and recession.

As massive number-crunchers, even neglecting any neural design, petaflops computers could still revolutionize the way we solve problems and model 'weather'. With sufficient computing power, we could take a Feynman approach to problem-solving, with huge numbers of pathways to solutions analyzed by a kind of sum-over-histories. Depending on the criteria for choosing the most likely or desirable solution -- least energy, least money, least action, or whatever rule you want to apply -- a petaflops computer could almost literally collapse the wave function of a problem.

And there's always the possibility that a computed model becomes so large it takes on chaotic properties similar to its original!

Knowledge changes our brains. It becomes anatomy, and anatomy expresses itself as behavior. Ability and knowledge together equate personality. Personality through history becomes culture. Our culture is shaped by the engines of our knowledge. These machines, our offspring and quondam servants, will change all that we know and expand what we can know, and shape all that we will become.

If ever we have faced the challenge of stuffing history into a box, it is going to be with these superfast thinkers.

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