Re: 1teraflops cell processor possible?

"Robert Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:50:32 -0600, "del cecchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> >"Robert Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >>
> >> There are some things about infectious diseases we already know:
> >>
> >> 1.  The infrastructure of vast portions of an entire continent,
> >> Africa, is on the verge of collapse on a scale that will make any
> >> other modern human catastophe pale by comparison because of HIV.
The
> >> glowing economic future of China may not ever materialize because
of
> >> HIV.
> >
> >One could point out that HIV can be controlled by behaviour
> >modifications or draconian societal measures more easily than by
> >scientific miracles.
> >
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> Would you want to be a part of such a society?  Would you want to be
> part of a society that tried to impose such measures on other
> societies?
>
I guess you don't recall how smallpox and other diseases were handled in
the good old USA before the advent of vaccines for them.  People were
quarantined until they were no longer infectious.  I know this is non PC
and off topic, but it is you predicting the collapse of society.  That
would be worse, eh?  So what is it I'm chosing from, some folks' rights
violated vrs society collapse?

> >>
> >> 2. Infectious diseases arise as if out of nowhere and because of
> >> modern transportation girdle the globe in a matter of days.  It is
> >> astonishing that HIV hasn't transformed itself into something more
> >> durable, virulent and deadly because of the frequency with which it
> >> mutates and reproduces itself.  It seems as if the SARS epidemic
was
> >> an exceedingly close call.
> >
> >Maybe we need more isolationism rather than computers built out of
> >unobtainium.
> >
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> If such a thing comes to pass, it will be because we are already on
> the brink of a "Blade Runner" future.  Do you want to let things go
> that far?
Blade runner was not society protecting from external disease threats.
Totally different situation.
Nice try, however.  How do You Think the western societies will react
after the first epidemic that kills a million or ten million people in a
short period of time?

This concludes my contributions to this particular subthread.  It's
interesting but sort of off topic.

del