The end of the world as we know it Part 2 with Tim King

I always balance.

And honestly, whenever I got to go to the Alberta Technology Leaders in Education conference last week, and thankfully they asked me to keynote about quantum and not AI, because with AI, I'm pretty rough with it.

But with quantum technology, computing especially we didn't even conceptualize it until the 1980s and then in the next 15 years we started working out how it could even be possible the fact that we even have the quantum computers we have now is absolutely astonishing when you see those you know futuristic sci-fi computers that seem like they're magic that these sort of people tend to think of them in this way What's interesting about quantum computing is it works in a completely different way from traditional electronics.

It's not deterministic.

It actually leverages the probability of quantum effects to calculate every possible outcome more or less simultaneously.

So that's one of the reasons why it would be able to break something like RSA encryption or elliptical curve, because The math needed to do that now on a linear digital computer would take you millions of years.

So it's impractical.

But a quantum computer, especially one with as little as 1,000 logical qubits, could do it in 10 minutes.

And if you had more qubits, which are quantum bits that act in a nonlinear probabilistic way, you could probably start to decrypt things almost in real time.

And again, that would be crippling to the internet.

The fact that this is coming, there's the cybersecurity worry, but honestly, we're fairly on top of that.

You mentioned that there could be future events.

I'm actually going to Philadelphia at the end of the month for the National Institute for Cybersecurity Education's big conference.

I've been following this for years, a decade, and I've never gotten to go, and I get to sit on a panel, and the moderator of our panel is the NIST, the National Institute for Standard and Technology Researcher, who created the quantum resistant algorithms that are all getting put into place now.

So

the fact that I get to meet the guy I've been quoting the research of and he's gonna moderate our panel, I'm just thrilled.

So you're right, like you said, when you open these doors and you make these connections, people look after you and that just keeps

happening.

I always balance.

And honestly, whenever I got to go to the Alberta Technology Leaders in Education conference last week, and thankfully they asked me to keynote about quantum and not AI, because with AI, I'm pretty rough with it.

But with quantum technology, computing especially we didn't even conceptualize it until the 1980s and then in the next 15 years we started working out how it could even be possible the fact that we even have the quantum computers we have now is absolutely astonishing when you see those you know futuristic sci-fi computers that seem like they're magic that these sort of people tend to think of them in this way What's interesting about quantum computing is it works in a completely different way from traditional electronics.

It's not deterministic.

It actually leverages the probability of quantum effects to calculate every possible outcome more or less simultaneously.

So that's one of the reasons why it would be able to break something like RSA encryption or elliptical curve, because The math needed to do that now on a linear digital computer would take you millions of years.

So it's impractical.

But a quantum computer, especially one with as little as 1,000 logical qubits, could do it in 10 minutes.

And if you had more qubits, which are quantum bits that act in a nonlinear probabilistic way, you could probably start to decrypt things almost in real time.

And again, that would be crippling to the internet.

The fact that this is coming, there's the cybersecurity worry, but honestly, we're fairly on top of that.

You mentioned that there could be future events.

I'm actually going to Philadelphia at the end of the month for the National Institute for Cybersecurity Education's big conference.

I've been following this for years, a decade, and I've never gotten to go, and I get to sit on a panel, and the moderator of our panel is the NIST, the National Institute for Standard and Technology Researcher, who created the quantum resistant algorithms that are all getting put into place now.

So

the fact that I get to meet the guy I've been quoting the research of and he's gonna moderate our panel, I'm just thrilled.

So you're right, like you said, when you open these doors and you make these connections, people look after you and that just keeps

happening.