Simulating and thus predicting performance of new technologies with computers will be the ultimate afterburner towards singularity. Be they quantum or not. Recent progress has been shown in:<p><pre><code>  - Protein folding [1]
  - Neuroscience [2]
  - Battery technology [3]
</code></pre>
All of these project have in common that they do (or potentially will) scale to contributors around the globe in near-realtime. It will simply save us from expensive real-world experiments. The frontier of computational crowd-science heralds truly exciting times.<p>PS: Berkeley has been a major force in that and from where many similar projects originated (c.f. BOINC project [4]).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fold.it" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fold.it</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openworm.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openworm.org</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;newscenter.lbl.gov&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;15&#x2F;electrolyte-genome-could-be-battery-game-changer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;newscenter.lbl.gov&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;15&#x2F;electrolyte-genome-coul...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_distributed_computing_projects" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_distributed_computing_...</a>