known as photons and electrons, what lay people know as the binary code. From a feng shui perspective, and as someone who has studied the I Ching all my life, I was blown away by the similarity of the binary code (the basis of all computing technology) with that of the broken and unbroken lines – symbols – of the ancient Chinese Book of Change, the I Ching. Classical computers work with information in the form of bits, which can be 1 or 0 at any time. Tis is the foundation of current thinking on digital computing. The classical computer processes information in a linear fashion, and in its analysis, it is not unlike the method of progression and analysis contained in the I Ching. Te new computer takes a different
approach and instead of operating under classical rules of physics, it operates under quantum rules; and applying the rule of supposition, its bits are not just 1 or 0 but can also be 1 and 0 at the same time. Each of these quantum bits exists then as equally probable and separate possibilities. Thus if each bit can exist in two different states at the same time, it can perform two calculations at the same time; two quantum bits can perform 4 simultaneous calculations; three quantum bits can perform 8 and so on. Te power of performing calculations grows exponentially… so as more quantum bits can be built into the
computer, the power of the computer likewise grows exponentially!
The D Wave II currently being built is said to have 512 bits, which means that in theory, it is a quantum computer that can perform 2 to the power of 512 operations simultaneously! This is more calculations than there are atoms in the Universe!
For those who cannot understand all this talk about bits and quantum processing power, consider that the I Ching has 64 hexagrams, which is 8 to the power of 2, and 8X8 is 64. Te quantum computer goes way beyond the wisdom of the I Ching’s realm of probabilities. To create a computer that has the power to compute or calculate to the power 512 is so phenomenal, we are tapping into a reality that truly is hard to imagine! But what if this is actually
possible? What if we are on the edge of a breakthrough? What
if
many of us will live to see the kind of New World Order we cannot even now imagine. We are already overwhelmed by incredible mountains of data, generated every second of each day. Just think of computer traffic,
search queries, phone records, retail transactions, credit card information, security surveillance, videos, climate data, surveys, research etc etc…just pause and think for a second! Te I Ching coped well in the old world order, but in today’s new world order, we need to go beyond the I Ching, and beyond the classical computer! Just consider how a Quantum Computer can make all current-day computers obsolete in a split second! It can crack any code, overcome any encryption, hack through any and all security features. Te question then is how near are we to successfully building this super computer? Tere are still many unanswered questions; how to build the bits for instance; how to do away with using electrons and move on to atoms; how to control the way the bits undertake their calculations; and more. These are surmountable difficulties and in the same way the classical computer got built, we can be quite certain the inventors and believers presently attempting to create this super computer are certain to come up with something exciting. Te word on the digital grapevine is that we should see a quantum computer made within the coming five years. For sure it is a great business opportunity. Te demand for such a computer is sure to go right through the great arctic sky!
Google computer and NASA are the proud owners of a Quantum Computer bought from DWave. They plan to use it to launch an artificial intelligence lab at NASA’s research center in California. Described as a “super computer” it is expected to harness “quantum randomness” to perform operations far more efficiently than traditional computers. The super computer recently solved at least one optimization problem 3,600 times faster than a conventional computer. Google’s exciting new technologies are sure to benefit.
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