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Well, Douglas Adams thought of it, too.

In HHGG, the Earth is just a massive computer for calculating the question to the answer of life the universe and everything.

All the biological components are merely instances and sub-processes spawned by the main program.

argh and it's a crappy analogy honestly. There's no real deadlocks as far as cycles of dependencies on critical resources.

It's basically saying the stock market is a giant distributed system with a bunch of independent agents, which erm it is...

this analogy to threading just doesn't add anything, it's just the author's model for agents acting concurrently, threading is a low level OS thing not the fundamentals of concurrent action.

Actually because you can apply it to anything, it means that the things we learned in CS class are that much more useful.