Topic: Nsci

President Obama issued an executive order creating the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) to develop a coordinated federal strategy for high-performance computing (HPC). The goal is to build an exascale computing system 100 times faster than current 10-petaflop machines. The initiative aims to maintain economic competitiveness and prepare for the "post-Moore's Law era" over the next 15 years.

The NSCI executive order is criticized as a "fascist" move toward corporatism, mandating collaboration between the government, industry, and academia. The strategy involves using high-performance computing for predictive data analytics and modeling, similar to "Minority Report" technology. Critics argue this creates a "federal fog" where resources are shared between the state and tech giants like Google.