Former Hong Kong Observatory director Lam Chiu-ying has never forgotten how alarm bells rang out when the weather forecast agency wanted to buy a state-of-the-art supercomputer from the United States in 1999.The CRAY SV1 would be the fastest supercomputer the city had ever seen, with dual-use technology capable of not only predicting the weather but also designing nuclear weapons, according to a Wall Street Journal report at the time.A group of US congressmen even tried to block the sale,…
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