No one can fault Professor Doyne Farmer’s ambition. The American economist is confident that, with the right funding, he can build a computer simulator of the world’s economy. As it sounds, this is no mean feat.
Inside a computer system, Farmer would place agents, representing every business and country in the world. These agents would be left to play out real-world circumstances simulating decades of economic activity. This isn’t just a fun sandbox experiment either. With its exciting potential for predicting climate technologies’ development, it could just save the planet too.
