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These three paragraphs are meant to explain why data gathering and processing are important, what distributed computing is and how it can benefit society, particularly if structured through distributed or decentralized governance, and how BOINC fulfills the goals of volunteer based distributed computing.

Since they are part of a larger piece, it's hard to say the direct purpose, but education is a major aspect.

I posted them to try to spark a conversation = )

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