Citizen Science and Grid Computing

japonicus writes "The Economist has an article summarizing the current state of distributed computing (think SETI@home and its ilk), which suggests that distributed-human projects are going to be the next big thing. (We discussed one such project, the Galaxy Zoo, a few months back.) The distributed-computing platform BOINC is about to expand to human processing. Distributed proofreaders have been a longstanding success (yet inexplicably failed to get even a mention in the article); but there are a lot of other projects waiting in the wings."

Wow

[moogied]

The economist, a magazine respected all around the world, has just published an article that concludes: "Two heads are better then one."

Hmph..

This is only common sense

[east coast]

The Economist has an article summarizing the current state of distributed computing (think SETI@home and its ilk), which suggests that distributed-human projects are going to be the next big thing
 
After all, just look at BotNets. How much more insight do we need than that?
 
If only Joe Sixpack (who leaves his computer on 24/7 even tho he only uses it about a half hour per day) would understand that every clock cycle is sacred, every clock cycle is great...
 
If only.

Re:My problem with grid computing

[EMeta]

But now it is winter, so my computer is at worst a badly directed space heater.