As well as basic online storage, firms such as Amazon, which provides the largest cloud service, also offer virtual computing. This allows people to rent as many "virtual computers" as they need.

If parallel supercomputers and online computer networks can do this, what kind of new thinking Spaces will future technologies — such as bioengineering — offer us?

Think Python is the online version of Python for Software Design: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, which is an updated version of How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python.