The world is separating into the smart and the dumb. It is not a geographic split, but a split of the mind. In fact, it has always been that way, it is just that new technology allows the split to become more obvious.

WCG is one way of voting which side you are on. I just finished my second Ryzen, and can add more later.

Thanks to everyone who has posted in this thread, sent us emails, posted on their own blogs/websites, and posted on social media.

Here's one example of the many tweets we've received this morning.

""world's growing problems"" ""disastrous effects on our lives""

only you have ..))

*edited to appropriate forum post - ErikaT

Science in itself is worth contributing to, so I don't mind supporting most of the projects which are running on the BOINC platform.

However, I think that among those, for the betterment of human society World Community Grid is about the most sensible project to be found, as most WCG sub-projects have a direct goal towards people in need. I am both proud and thankful to be able to join this adventure as a volunteer.

As WCG is a project that many people are donating their unused computer cycles to, I still have a long way to go until I'll reach a reasonable standing within the Rechenkraft.net team, although this was one of my very first BOINC projects. So, for some months now I've adjusted more computation time to WCG than I did before, and I plan on keeping this up.

I am hoping for World Community Grid to find even more compelling ideas on how to make the world a better place for even more people, this way providing me with good reasons to consume electricity with my machines, which are quite over-powered for my personal needs but put together nicely for running BOINC projects.

Happy Birthday, World Community Grid!

As an outlet for grief:
My mother had the terminal illness Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The abilities we take for granted: Chewing, Tasting, Seeing, Clasping, Walking, Continence, Healthy Brain, Energy, Friends, are taken one after another every few months.
I thought as smart as I am, what can I do?! I have now read and learnt much.
Serendipity was the discovery of WCG. Although MS is not on the list, my strategy is simple: When all the other diseases are cured then MS will be the last one left and it will be societies turn to cure MS.
In 2012 an Ethiopian moved in with me. He told me he was a refugee and that it took NZ government and Amnesty International to free him from a Thailand jail. He was imprisoned only for fleeing his home country. He told me it was hot, even hot air coming out of the vents. No sunlight so lack of Vitamin D, although the guards were good enough to give him pills for this. They beat the other prisoners.
He had been held back and needed a push forward.
He told me he wishes to become a nurse, and I thought helping him would mean he could spend the rest of his life helping other people.
So I bought him the best laptop and taught him how to use it. We flew in Google Earth to the Statue of Liberty and I showed him the article in Wikipedia (FYI which takes 5.5 hours to read). Showed him Dictionary.com where he can also click a button to pronounce the sound, and Thesaurus. Showed him internet banking and the next thing I knew is he used initiative to get a part time job to send money to his family in Ethiopia via Western Union. I hear him happily Skpying his family. I got him Microsoft Office for his school work. He needed to study English for 3 years before becoming a nurse, but then decided to become a laboratory assistant (so another 3 years of study).
The only catch was that WCG runs when plugged in. He became top of his class and is doing very well for himself.
My new Apple MacBook Pro is 4 times as fast as his. Granting me the top 5,000 results listing. Hence my name:
Knocking Out One Problem At A Time!