Concepts such as economics, politics, empire building, or development are disciplines of human dynamic life. Recent events in the news have spawned a rise in documentaries in the media not defined as simply children's entertainment.
There are number of freeware applications for the personal computer running Windows, Linux, or Apple-Mac software. Yet the realtime processes these programs represent, run on different parameters.
As teaching tools they are as good as text books, only easier to keep more information in and faster at doing the math than most people ability by natural means.
The trade offs are an increase in recource demand, frequency to re-evaluate the results, frequency to change the inputs as older output becomes subject to change.
Thus, as someone once said, "We can't predict the past, only point to a possibility that it happened." The future fares no better. Inductive reasoning runs behind deductive reasoning in accuracy of conclusion.
If any progress remains sustainable, it must follow a path of close approximation to all truth, whether it is affecting it or not.
I found a real tidy open source simulation during a search for freeware simulations and games.
The name of it is, "LinCity", and can still be downloaded cost free from SourceForge. Here's the link to the page: http://lincity.sourceforge.net/
I have more applications like this one that run models on a personal computer as do most users that play and collect games.
Another I can think of with some value as a teaching tool is Sim-Dilemma. Available for download also at SourceForge.net Here's the website link: http://simdilemma.sourceforge.net/
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