Stephen Johnson+FollowIs SETI@home Still the Gold Standard?Remember when we all lent our home PCs to the search for extraterrestrial life? SETI@home just narrowed 12 billion cosmic signals down to 100 promising candidates. But here's the debate: Did this massive crowdsourced experiment actually move the needle in our hunt for intelligent life, or did it mostly expose the limits of distributed computing and data filtering? Would you join a new search, or is it time for a new approach? #Tech #SETI #DistributedComputing10Share