I’m sure I’m not the only person to think of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series of science fiction novels when I read this story about predictive simulation. Never heard of psycohistory? Perhaps you will if this patent is the foundation <smirk>.
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I’m sure I’m not the only person to think of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series of science fiction novels when I read this story about predictive simulation. Never heard of psycohistory? Perhaps you will if this patent is the foundation <smirk>. In a Chicago suburb in 1982, a few people were mysteriously affected by cyanide poisoning. Some died. The cause was traced to some bottles of Extra Strength Tylenol. The CEO of Johnson and Johnson, the manufacturer of Tylenol, faced a huge crisis. Despite the high probability that Tylenol bottles had been tampered with in only […] In the 1970s, nearly 20 million people were infected with a micro-worm parasite spread through the bite of a fly. Many of these people lived in western Africa, barely surviving at a subsistence level. Nearly half of those infected would eventually be blinded by the parasite. The condition was known as river blindness. Known treatments […] |
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