Recent reports that China is barreling ahead in its development of supercomputers should give the U.S. considerable cause for concern. China has devoted significant resources to their supercomputer program in recent years, resulting in their ranking earlier this year at the number two spot on the TOP500 list. TOP500.org ranks […]
Imagine if you didn’t have a nervous system. Your body would have no way of regulating any of its other systems. It wouldn’t know if it was too hot or too cold. It couldn’t register dangers and harmful conditions. Every aspect of the environment would be shut off to it. In […]
Change frightens us. The uncertainty of the new, the potential for disruption, it’s one of the reasons that our species seeks to anticipate the future – so we can avoid and hopefully survive the worst it has to throw at us. But change also has a huge potential to improve […]