Darkside of Computation

The history of the technological development of the computer is also a history of mass massacre. The world’s first electronic computer ENIAC was created in 1944 in the United States Army facility of Aberdeen Proving Ground with the objective of effectively processing the trajectory of missiles. In trajectory calculation, it is necessary to solve nonlinear partial differential equations of fluid dynamics, so an advanced processing capacity was needed. Its successor model, EDVAC, was used in actual combat. It is the so-called von Neumann-type computer, the prototype of the architecture of the PC we now use every day. In other words, it is possible to say that the electronic computer we use today was born as an instrument of murder. However, using the same computer, we have created many peaceful applications as well. We communicate with people all around the world and produce images and music. How we are going to use science and technology and whether we will lead ourselves to utopia or dystopia depend on our choices. In order to transmit the negative history of the computer to future generations, I carried out a simulation of fluid dynamics using a present-day ordinary PC, and outputted the result to a paper, which can be stored for a long time. I selected several dates that marked the negative history of computers and estimated the number of people who would have been killed, and set them as environment variables of the simulation. I then extracted the shape of the fluid generated as a result.