After learning about Liquid Galaxy by Google, finding an article on a proposed "Living Earth Simulator" blew my mind. After $1.3 billion+ in funding, the brainchild of Dirk Helbing could become reality by year 2022. The Living Earth Simulator would take not only massive amounts of information from the Earth and its environments but also from humans themselves to create a sim-like world where the future (financially, disease, weather) could be relatively accurately simulated... much like the weather is predicted today. How insane would that be? I would be interested to see how the world's inhabitants would react to such a God-like project!