I mentioned in a prior post the Distributed Proofreaders Site, which allows anyone to help with the project of turning scans of public-domain books into e-books that can be read and (more importantly) searched.
One of the ways to improve civilization is to improve communication, not only among regular users of the internet but also among scientists, researchers, and scholars.
In addition to projects like Distributed Proofreaders, which allow users to contribute brainpower to a project, there are several projects that allow users to contribute unused processor time to add computing power to a research project. These "grid" projects are mainly oriented toward scientific applications.
One example is the Compute against cancer project, which supports cancer research with shared computing power. I haven't been able to find many projects that are currently in operation. If anyone knows of any, please comment and give details!
The benefit to projects like these are obvious; using the shared power of many people, massive contributions can be made toward scientific goals.
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