Towards a Simulation Network or the Medium Is the Monte Carlo (with Apologies to Marshall Mcluhan)

The discipline of probability management, introduced in 2006, formalized the concept of data structures for storing arrays of simulated realizations. These are called Stochastic Information Packets or SIPs. Today the open SIPmathTM standard of 501(c)(3) non-profit ProbabilityManagement.org supports SIP libraries in XML, CSV and XLSX file formats. This article describes how such data may foster the creation of networks of simulations that bring stochastic modeling to general management. Skeptics may argue that most managers do not know how to generate the appropriate random variates. It was similarly argued that light bulbs could not be used by the general public as they would not know how to generate the appropriate electricity. In this context, probability management is devoted to the design of a power grid for probability that provides access to trusted sources of random variates. The SIP is a good candidate for the transmission standard.