Simulating and thus predicting performance of new technologies with computers will be the ultimate afterburner towards singularity. Be they quantum or not. Rece

Simulating and thus predicting performance of new technologies with computers will be the ultimate afterburner towards singularity. Be they quantum or not. Recent progress has been shown in: - Protein folding [1] - Neuroscience [2] - Battery technology [3] All of these project have in common that they do (or potentially will) scale to contributors around the globe in near-realtime. It will simply save us from expensive real-world experiments. The frontier of computational crowd-science heralds truly exciting times. PS: Berkeley has been a major force in that and from where many similar projects originated (c.f. BOINC project [4]). [1] https://fold.it https://fold.it [2] http://www.openworm.org http://www.openworm.org [3] http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2015/04/15/electrolyte-genome-could-be-battery-game-changer/ http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2015/04/15/electrolyte-genome-coul... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_...