IBM World Community Grid: A supercomputer of unused PCs - Jun. 23. Thousands of ordinary laptops linked together can rival the processing power of a supercomputer.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Buying a supercomputer costs millions of dollars, then thousands more each year to maintain it. That's not to mention the hefty electric bill to keep the massive system running. Introducing EightBit.me. In Bar Karma, Will Wright Orders 12 Shots of Crowdsourced Sci-Fi TV. William Sanderson plays a 20,000-year-old bartender in crowdsourced sci-fi show Bar Karma.
Four short months ago, a web programmer from Barberton, Ohio, named Jason Lee Holm had an idea for a TV show that sounds like something right out of a vintage episode of The Twilight Zone: What if a man, worried that his soon-to-be published book will cause a global meltdown, rectifies the problem by traveling to the future and hashing out the dilemma with a 20,000-year-old bartender? Holm’s 22-scene outline of the concept found favor with a small online community of sci-fi fans and, as a result, the story arc will air this month in Current TV’s new series Bar Karma.
Conceptualized by The Sims creator Will Wright, the show is a ballsy experiment in crowdsourced entertainment that transforms storylines written by passionate non-professionals like Holm into 30-minute episodes produced by professional cast and crew members on a New Jersey soundstage. Skeptics don’t surprise Wright. Dear Photograph.