Can this be tweaked to model an actual city or town, akin to the digital twin model? Imagine our policymakers running a simulation or backtesting on historic data. If someone optimised quality of life at this scale, that could do some good.
The beginning of the film "Threads" comments on the total interdependence of modern society. The rest of the film proceeds to show what happens when it is forcibly removed, and it's not a good outcome.
Are these problems consistent all over the world, or are they particularly severe in certain countries? I assume there are many studies of this already so it would be good to understand whether this is a problem that has a solution.
And the "digital" versions rely on physics just as much as the versions on discs or cartridges. However, it's abundantly clear what is meant here so there is no need to clarify the language...
The original iPod shuffle was essentially a USB stick with an audio port and some buttons, and I used it in just the same way as this. I think it was only £20 or £30 in price, a great product.
Having bought a second hand copy with no manual, I printed that badboy out at 25% scale (4 pages per double sided sheet), as it was actually needed to go through the tutorials. Took hours and ended up about 2 inches thick.