Archive December 2013
This is an archive of articles that Lincoln Cannon published in December 2013. An annual archive for 2013 is available. And a full archive of all articles that Lincoln has published since 2005 is also available. You may also search for articles and other content that Lincoln has published on any of his websites.
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Future Technology for Family History Simulations
Technology, and particularly computing, is essential to family history. Without it, we could still tell family stories to our children. But we certainly couldn’t substantiate those stories from billions of historical records into millions of family trees, as web applications like FamilySearch and Ancestry.com do today. In the 1960s, Intel ... -
Are We Living in a Family History Simulation?
Last time I posted, we imagined that one of the things we might do with vast computing resources in the future is run highly detailed family history simulations, to the point of enabling the characters with artificial intelligence and fully immersive consciousness. If something like $150 could purchase more computing ...