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• pjtr 10y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large-scale_macroeconometric_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large-scale_macroeconometric_m... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_economics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_economics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Earth_Simulator_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Earth_Simulator_Project
  • rconti 10y ago
    Damn. No offense meant to the parent (because I wasn't even smart enough to come up with this on my own in 2017, much less the 1940s), but it's humbling to see someone having such insight 70 years ago.
    • simonh 10y ago
      I read Asimov in my teens back in the 80s, but the fact that Chaos Theory had already pretty much killed a lot of those ideas as a plausible possibility took the edge off a bit.