Quantum Anonymous

  “We’ll Get Everywhere” Quantum computing is new. Or is it? With origins in the 1960s, testing and perfection has led to the new version that's being put in front of the public. This miraculous innovation is sold as the answer to all our computing needs. I know because I was regrettably part of all that. Who am I? Call me Quantum Anonymous. qTom for short. Major Tom for all you Bowie fans, if you must. But who I am is not so important as where I've been, what I've seen, and what I know. What I know a lot about is Quantum computing… and where it all began. And it wasn't some shiny lab in Seattle or a slick boardroom in Palo Alto. This thing started where most things do—in the muck and mire, dust and din of chaos. Reaching back into those contorted origins is partly my goal. We'll get there.  We'll get everywhere.  Although I'm known within my professional spirals as a writer of long, rambling, and occasionally witty and often annoying emails, I'm not a r...

  Imagine a world where the Rolling Stones weren’t famous. In this strange, alternate world, The Stones never got big, had no impact on the world, and nobody knew Keith and Mick and their whole rock n roll circus. All their songs were unrecorded. As far as records? None. Every one of their concerts never happened. Their entire place in pop culture is entirely removed from culture. It's like they never existed. That would be some strange morning to wake-up in, wouldn't it? Let's take it a bit more round the bend. What if in this world, the Rolling Stones existed, but just a little bit. What if the Rolling Stones were just some bar band in Sussex? Never famous, hardly known, geezers now, lugging their amps a bit and strumming away. Songs nobody paid attention to—little ditties done down the pub. Songs slightly different. Like a number called “Jumping John Flash”. You find them online and see an old Mick but he's not quite Mick and there’s Charlie, but he's ...

   #3: “Let’s Talk Quantum”   For the short Audio Trailer, link Here For the full Audio Version, link here   Right then, here's where we start: Let's talk quantum. Just the basics of how it works. Hopefully you might understand some of it. Nobody understands all of it. But just a glimmer of the forces that shimmer just out of our sight will help you understand how our world’s greatest rock and roll band— The Get Quick— has been undone. Or reduced considerably . Turned into a local band in Philadelphia, of all places. How did we get here? That's all quantum, I'm afraid. With the bloom of AI, there's lots of demand for hyper processing powers. These rapidly—rabidly—expanding functions require new lanes in the old Information SuperHighway . Highways were fine for your long lost dialup days, but our leap in processing powers demands new digital dimensions entirely. The discovery and exploration of these dimensions is being sold to people today in the...

  "The Powers of Probably"   I realize all this business is a bit much, just to discuss a rock and roll band. But The Get Quick isn't just a rock and roll band. For my money, they are “the” rock and roll band. They’re also how humanity learned to explore the multiverse. Relating that aspect of their history—our history—will be fittingly fantastic. You'll enjoy that more and understand Quantum better with this elementary base layer I'm liberally applying. Afraid you'll have to apply some brain power to absorb this layer. But I do think it’s well worth it. So please stay with me— we're getting there. Probably. Probably. That’s the word when describing quantum reality. Long ago, when we first plugged into Quantum, all of us learned about Probably. It fast became the only word that applied. Once we started rooting around in the strangely fascinating Quantum Realm, all definitive statements were rendered moot. Everything became radically ...