A QUANTUM INTERNET?
I’ve often posted that I believe that while COVID-19 is a public if not largely political tragedy, it is the absence of relevant infrastructure that has amplified it’s affects, and desperately needs revision. So, today’s infrastructure upgrade is surrounding perhaps one of the most important elements of our future: the nervous system of America — the internet. With our current government blindsided by ethical and political problems, today’s internet has become more of a invitation to criminals than the communication backbone of our future world. One “solution” or at least upgrade would be a quantum internet.
Theoretical physicist Jonathan Dowling, in his recent book, SCHROEDINGER’S WEB (I’ve had to use the “oe” substitute for an umlaut which actually appears in the title), gives examples of quantum photonic communications that have already successfully taken place, one in 2016 between Beijing and Shanghai, the key to which is quantum entanglement in which particles are linked together over seemingly boundless time and space. That unique characteristic Einstein called “spooky action at a distance;” the perfect topic just before Halloween. Theoretically, and I believe practically-speaking as well, once entangled, communication would be at the speed of light, or possibly even faster if that’s what quantum simultaneousness is.
So what’s the “problem?” Interestingly, the problem is people, the very clients the quantum internet would seek to serve. Dowling is said to have said, “Just like the classical internet, we really won’t figure out what the quantum internet is useful for until it is up and running.” Kind of like creating new universes and black holes in laboratories. That’s not to scare, but to remind us that with increasing power comes increasingly powerful side effects, which, if we are really the rational creatures we claim, we should be well aware of. Eh? How you ask? Another new infrastructure, SCI-FU or science-based futuring a la my newest book, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, now available at 25% off during Savant/Aignos’ PRE-HOLIDAY SALE using “HOLIDAYSALE” discount code at checkout at
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Theoretical physicist Jonathan Dowling, in his recent book, SCHROEDINGER’S WEB (I’ve had to use the “oe” substitute for an umlaut which actually appears in the title), gives examples of quantum photonic communications that have already successfully taken place, one in 2016 between Beijing and Shanghai, the key to which is quantum entanglement in which particles are linked together over seemingly boundless time and space. That unique characteristic Einstein called “spooky action at a distance;” the perfect topic just before Halloween. Theoretically, and I believe practically-speaking as well, once entangled, communication would be at the speed of light, or possibly even faster if that’s what quantum simultaneousness is.
So what’s the “problem?” Interestingly, the problem is people, the very clients the quantum internet would seek to serve. Dowling is said to have said, “Just like the classical internet, we really won’t figure out what the quantum internet is useful for until it is up and running.” Kind of like creating new universes and black holes in laboratories. That’s not to scare, but to remind us that with increasing power comes increasingly powerful side effects, which, if we are really the rational creatures we claim, we should be well aware of. Eh? How you ask? Another new infrastructure, SCI-FU or science-based futuring a la my newest book, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, now available at 25% off during Savant/Aignos’ PRE-HOLIDAY SALE using “HOLIDAYSALE” discount code at checkout at
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je6CC...
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