A friend just sent me a blog post by Bret Victor, whom I find to be one of the more inspiring individuals in the tech community today. The blog post is titled
*What can a technologist do about climate change? (a personal view) <http://worrydream.com/#!/ClimateChange>* ( http://worrydream.com/#!/ClimateChange) It’s long, but it’s well-informed and well-written. After four chapters focusing on things that aren’t so specific to the tech-community but actually applicable to almost anyone (funding, energy production, energy transport and energy consumption), he starts talking about “Tools for scientists and engineers”, and (after noting that most tools today aren’t great), he says Here’s an opinion you might not hear much — I feel that one effective approach to addressing climate change is contributing to the development of Julia <http://julialang.org/>. This makes at least me motivated to push the limits even further here :) // T
