I am a massive fan of Michio Kaku. The first book of his books I read was “The Future of the Mind”. One of the first books that suggested that our brain is a quantum machine. Nature is familiar with quantum. For example, photosynthesis, one of the most important processes on earth, is a quantum process.
Quantum Supremacy
That is why I picked up “Quantum Supremacy: How Quantum Computers will Unlock the Mysteries of Science – and Address Humanity’s Biggest Challenges”. Another one of those “a revolution is coming” books. The end of the age of silicon and the beginning of quantum computing. Deloitte estimates that the market for quantum computers should reach tens of billions of dollars in the 2030s.
Extreme powerful
Quantum computers are extremely powerful. That is due to being able to be a one and a zero at the same time. Superposition and entanglement. Quantum computers are 100 trillion times faster than an ordinary supercomputer. Giving them the capability to tackle problems that digital computers can never solve.
Quantum is amazing
It seems incredible that, at a fundamental level, electrons can exhibit such unrecognisable behaviour, such as being in two places at the same time, tunnelling through solid barriers, transmitting information faster than light, and instantly analysing an infinite number of paths between any two points.
CIOs
As a CIO, you should take note. Quantum computing will accelerate solutions to a large range of problems. Companies need to become owners of quantum capability. Both as defensive (cyber security, hacking, etc.) and as an offensive move. Imagine digital transformation where you combine quantum computing with AI. What will that do to your business model? Check out AgilePoint. It is the only platform that is close.
Solving all our problems
That opens up the possibility of solving almost all the problems we are facing (ignoring the issue of deployment at scale and fast). I am referring to solving climate change. Michio is a true techno-optimist. I suggest you read “The Coming Wave”.
Everything QAI
It will make solar super efficient, it will design better batteries, new chemicals, it will design new ways to capture carbon, design new fertilisers (probably from bacteria), will boost synthetic biology and genetics, but it will also solve most of our health problems, by for example deciphering the molecular intricacies of our immune systems. It will create new types of proteins, new materials, new drugs, will become superconducting, revolutionise agriculture, love the fusion challenges, etc. Think immortality, QIoT, data analysis, Qblockchain, QBiology, QDNA, QAvatars, quantum twinning, quantum copies, Qbots, and the list goes on. Put Q before everything. Or better, put QAI before everything.
Sentient quantum
We are already concerned about AI becoming sentient and super intelligent. Imagine quantum AI. Read “Novascene“. Intelligence will always evolve upwards. The question is whether a quantum computer will be able to perceive. Because the observer effect requires consciousness, this means that, in some sense, consciousness determines existence. Read “The Grand Biocentric Design: How Life Creates Reality”.“ This brings us down into the quantum/sentience rabbit hole. Schrodinger´s cat, wave equations, probability, wave collapse, microworld and macro world, entanglement, parallel universe, tunnelling, string theory, decoherence theory, etc.
Small Q
The most interesting part of the whole book is miniaturisation. Computers are becoming smaller and smaller. How small can you make a quantum computer? This is where it links to nanotechnology, molecular biology, and genetics, but also with nature and biomimicry. After all, if photosynthesis is quantum computing on a leaf, what else is possible? Particularly if you combine quantum computing with all the other deep tech being developed.
Maybe we should all be techno-optimists?
