Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Cultural Evolution helps solve Protien Folding?

Evolution comes in many forms. The classic biological mutation and survivial of the fittist but also cultural/societal. Today's generation of kids are producing Gamers. Now whether they will procreate to produce more and better gamers or whether gaming skills will remain a learned process is unknown. However, gamers are employed to help countries hack computer systems, the military to work with UAV's but also science.

Here gamers solved in weeks what scientists had worked on for a decade.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393200,00.asp

http://fold.it/portal/