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Integrated 3-D Simulation and Modeling/Desktop Supercomputers

Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery

With the advent of supercomputers , e.g., the modern desktop computer costing about $3000, we can visualize and look at things in the past and present. To some extent, a computer is much more than an abacus. It can be a telescope. A computer can look at faraway galaxies with modeling and simulation, artificially colored using raw data to make an image that is understandable by the human brain. It can be a microscope and go all the way down to an atomic particle, which we theoretically cannot see, but our simulation lets us look at. We can do time travel. Time travel is the act of forecasting the weather, production, projects, looking at historical documents, and focusing on social change. With the advent of the computer and the technology associated with it, it is now becoming very common to talk to people throughout the world. In addition to conversing through the computer, we are also able to see the person we are "talking to" in real time. This technology substantially reduces air travel and increases global communications.

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