I was an early adopter of BOINC, a distributed scientific computing platform powering research projects, often protein folding with applications to Alzheimer's and cancer such as Folding@home and Rosetta@home, which distribute computationally expensive calculations to users' PCs who wished to donate their spare computing power. Sound familiar? Every time I think about how much energy is wasted on worthless speculation, I'm sick to my stomach thinking about how close we came to this technology being useful or productive in literally any way. It is disgusting. It is vile.