Scientists Plan ” Living Earth Simulator” to Track Disease, Disasters and Traffic [Science]

The computers haven’t been built yet, so it’s unlikely to happen for ages-but the Living Earth Simulator will probably be a ” knowledge collider” capable of modelling our entire planet when/if it gets off the fantasy drawing board.

Dr Helbing, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, claims we want a brilliant-accurate model of the planet to aid predict patterns in, well, everything, with the LES covering it all-from the weather to the spread of swine flu.

While the hardware required to power a fake planet continues to be non-existent the information needed to populated a living model of Earth is already being collected, because of the likes of NASA collating and recording stacks of environmental data. [ BBC ]

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