Living Earth Simulator To Reflect ‘Everything On Earth’

Scientists are now drafting ideas on creating a large-scale simulator that can replicate virtually everything happening on Planet Earth, from planetary dynamics like weather and climate changes to human-inspired actions like financial transactions and global trends. The ambitious project, named the Living Earth Simulator (LES), aims to deepen and advance the aims to “advance the scientific understanding of what is taking place on the planet, encapsulating the human actions that shape societies and the environmental forces that define the physical world.” DailyTech reports:

Dr. Dirk Helbing, chairman of the FuturICT project at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, along with a team of scientists, have begun to collaborate on an Earth project that could change how we see the world — literally.

The computer project has been nicknamed the Living Earth Simulator (LES), and the idea behind it is to simulate everything on Earth, such as the spread of diseases, congestion on roads, international financial transactions and weather patterns. The project is aimed to epitomize both human and environmental actions that shape our world.

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

DailyTech: New Living Earth Simulator will Model Everything on Our Planet