| Today we have Super Computers, which are truly | | | | terrorists. |
| incredible indeed and we can use these Super | | | | You can see how the politics of allocating |
| Computers to do all sorts of things. Currently we have | | | | supercomputer resources can be very important and |
| computers, which can do tens of trillions of calculations | | | | perhaps you can also see the problems involved. In |
| per second and they are great for figuring out things | | | | fact there are so many uses for number crunching |
| like the weather with massive amounts of data sets | | | | such as a NASA space program or figuring out a |
| from many different sources. | | | | difficult mathematical problem that there is a lot a |
| These computers can also be used to track down | | | | competition. |
| criminals, by scanning the Internet or databases. These | | | | It is important to prioritize what is the most compelling |
| computers can be used for doing genetic manipulation | | | | need of the technology and of course those |
| research to prevent disease and problems in the | | | | computers should be used for that first. If our nation is |
| human body. Unfortunately, we do not have enough of | | | | at war the supercomputers can come in handy for |
| these supercomputers yet and therefore different | | | | many things indeed. |
| groups must share the technology. | | | | However, we should not forget that the forward |
| One problem we have with technology Time-sharing | | | | progression of the human species and science is also |
| for supercomputers is that there are politics involved in | | | | important although perhaps not as pressing at the very |
| the allocating of resources. A cure for cancer is indeed | | | | moment that the military needs the computers. |
| a very important allocation of such resources, but so is | | | | Perhaps you might consider all this in 2006 and join me |
| an approaching hurricane at the same time or perhaps | | | | in promoting the purchase of more supercomputers. |
| we are trying to track sneaky bad guys or international | | | | |