While You Were Sleeping

While You Were Sleeping
The promise of quantum computing is to vastly simplify
that process by exactly predicting the structure of a new molecule, and how it will interact with other compounds.”
Quantum computers process information, using the capabilities of quantum physics, differently from traditional computers.
It turns out, she explained, there are “3.6 million ways to arrange 10 people for dinner.”
Classical computers don’t solve “big versions of this problem very well at all,” she said, like trying to crack sophisticated encrypted codes, where
you need to try a massive number of variables, or modeling molecules where you need to account for an exponential number of interactions.
“Whereas normal computers store information as either a 1 or a 0, quantum computers exploit two phenomena — entanglement
and superposition — to process information,” explains MIT Technology Review.
Technology companies “are inventing these technologies, so we have the responsibility to help people adapt to it —
and I don’t mean just giving them tablets or P. C.s, but lifelong learning systems.”
To back that up, said Rometty, IBM designed Pathways in Technology (P-Tech) schools, partnering with close to 100 public high schools
and community colleges to create a six-year program that serves large numbers of low-income students.
But, again, look at where we are today thanks to artificial intelligence from digital computers —
and the amount of middle-skill and even high-skill work they’re supplanting — and then factor in how all of this could be supercharged in a decade by quantum computing.