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Greg Egan's 1994 Permutation City actually depicts Malaysia using cloud compute to model cyclones and mitigate them with weather manipulation Very prescient
by nylonstrung 25d ago
Greg Egan's 1994 Permutation City actually depicts Malaysia using cloud compute to model cyclones and mitigate them with weather manipulation
Very prescient
- malonepela 23d agoSpot on bringing up Permutation City! It's wild to see 90s sci-fi weather mitigation slowly turning into real-world policy in Southeast Asia. Living and working around Komodo National Park (based out of Bajo), stories like this hit very close to me.