Largest Supercomputers to Simulate Life on Earth, Including Economies and Whole Societies
Scientists are planning to use the largest supercomputers to simulate life on Earth, including the financial system, economies and whole societies. The project is called "Living Earth Simulator" and part of a huge EU research initiative named FuturIcT.Collected from: Largest supercomputers to simulate life on Earth, including economies and whole societies
Europe's Plan to Simulate the Entire Planet
The 'Living Earth Simulator' will mine economic, environmental and health data to create a model of the entire planet in real time.
Think of it as a kind of Google Earth for society. We've all played with Google's 3D map of the Earth that uses real data to reveal not only the town where you live and work but your home and back garden too.
Imagine a similar model that uses in real time things like financial transactions, health records, travel details, carbon dioxide emissions and so on to build a model of not just the planet but the entire society that populates it. Helbing calls it 'reality mining'.
This model will be capable not only modelling the planet in real time but of simulating the future, rather in the manner of weather forecasters.
Collected from: Europe's Plan to Simulate the Entire Planet - Technology Review
The FuturICT Knowledge Accelerator is a previously unseen multidisciplinary international scientific endeavour with focus on techno-socio-economic-environmental systems. The three main achievements of the FuturICT flagship will be the establishment of
- a Living Earth Simulator (global-scale simulation of techno-socio-economic systems),
- Crisis Observatories (for financial instabilities, scarcity of resources, emerging risks and conflicts, epidemics, etc.), and
- an Innovation Accelerator (identifying innovations early on, evaluating them across disciplines and supporting co-creation projects between different scientific disciplines, business, and governance).
Collected from: FuturICT: FuturIcT
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