By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026Then the achievements of the parallel computing partisans drove more investment in improvements to parallel computing hardware *and* theoretical work on how to parallelize other problems. 24/ 1351
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026This feedback loop raised the profile of parallel computing, attracting more bright and ambitious people to those applications, whose even more impressive accomplishments brought more people into the field, more capital into hardware development, and more resources to parallelization research. 25/ 1381
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026The point being that world-historic forces, combined with accidents of history, shape the outcomes of individuals, companies and disciplines. 26/ 1505
