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Staring Down a Revolution: Questions for Sid Karin

Posted by timothy on from the listen-up dept.

Mark of THE CITY writes "Mark of THE CITY writes "Since helping to found the San Diego Supercomputer Center in the 1980s, Sid Karin has distinguished himself as a national expert on digital technology and its possibilities for scientific research. Go here for the full interview."

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  1. "Technological revolutions don't happen every day" by Ralph+Spoilsport · · Score: 3, Interesting
    But they happen a lot faster when you have cheap energy. It will be interesting to see how all this rah-rah technology thing plays out as energy accelerates in price.

    I think we'll see fewer bells and whistles and more fundamental and substantive shifts in how the technology basically works and how and when we choose/bother to use it.

    RS

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