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how about quantum computing

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http://www.foresight.org/

Borders, periphery, frontiers:

Life and cognizance exists on the edge of quantum and classical physics.

The very small ( nano ) works by most extraordinary rules - objects have properties that allow them to move from here to there without going through the intermediate space. Time is not linear and space bends. Objects themselves appear, take on properties, and then change their character and reappears in a different form.

At the atomic and molecular level the connections can be open and creative rather than mechanical and determined. Uncertainty is a fundamental prerequisite of creativity and life itself.

A really clever computer working with uncertainly could work at this level and have some sort of consciousness. This would be an interesting invention of this century.

http://www.foresight.org/cgi-bin/aglimpse?query=quantum&relpath=&errors=0&age=&maxfiles=50&maxlines=30 quantum dots (or single-electron transistors), quantum wells, quantum wires, spin transistors or arrays of all these devices. low power quantum electronics, and high bandwidth photonics are of special interest, as are the demonstrations of space subsystems based on these technologies.

http://www.aero.org/conferences/micro-nano/

Candidate technologies receiving attention include various quantum functional devices, quantum computing, DNA computing, and molecular electronics explained for molecular diode switches, molecular transistors, and molecular logic gates.

This talk would provide an overview on one such candidate technology based on carbon and other nanotubes. the novel Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL), which differs in design from traditional laser diodes.

This treatment burned out the protein shell and yielded two dimensional arrays of inorganic iron oxide dots on the Si wafer.

The size and repeat distance of the dots were 6 and 12 nm, respectively, as measure by FE-SEM and AFM. As the diameter of the iron oxide dots is only 6 nm, this two imensional array of inorganic iron oxide dots has a potential to be used as quantum dots. Feasibility study of the application of this dot array to the structure of semiconductor memory is now in progress.

Key word "infrastructure"

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Fiber Optics to the Home

Fiber optics has helped push the telecommunications system into hyperdrive. But only when fiber connections reach all the way into the home will the technology’s promise be fully realized.

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re: ORCL, HP team with Utilities in Consortium to Fiber the Last Mile

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/01/24/000124hnutility.xml

"...taking advantage of the deregulated telecom industry, the small, tightly knit consortium will initially offer digital voice, TV, and Web hosting over fiber, under the name SpectraDyne Services. It includes Sierra Pacific Power Company, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, and TelecommUnity Systems."

http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/subject.gsp?subjectid=29127

ZDNet's "Your Digital Future"  represents a fascinating, almost overwhelming look into the changes we're likely to be seeing in:

- E-Business (XML, WAP, human language translation, security, B2B technologies, micropayments, enterprise-wide information systems, and more) http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2608415,00.html ;

- Internet technologies (the Internet's growing pervasiveness, Instant Messaging becoming as interoperable as the Web, applications that thrive on the "new connectivity," secure protocols, better ways to deliver high-bandwidth content, future "agent" technology, and more) http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2608416,00.html ;

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The infrastructures that tie all this together and allow it all to work (fiber-fiber-fiber, wireless of many different flavors, PDAs and cell phones, radios -- from ultra wideband to software-defined, and more) http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2608417,00.html ;

- Computing technologies (.18 to .13 micron chips, silicon-on-insulator, and copper interconnects yielding 12 GHz chips by 2005! Commodity systems in 2003 that have 5 GHz processors, 10 gigabytes of memory, 300 gigabyte hard drives, and half-gigabit/second USB.  A look into evolving chip architectures, and all of this leading to systems that "will still be outdated within a year of purchase."  Graphics performance in 2005 will be 1.6 trillion pixels at 48 billion polygons per second.  And 1 terabyte disk drives that same year.  And more.) http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2608418,00.html ; and

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The frontiers beyond (optical, molecular, DNA, and quantum computing, totally ubiquitous computing, advanced display technologies, and the promises of carbon nanotubes, self-organizing networks, and more.) http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2608419,00.html  .

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The following image need to be firmly in mind to understand the AOL/ Time Warner deal - and the frenzy going on in telecommunications and computer industries.

The time frame is about 10 years - the impact comes first in Northern Europe - Singapore - parts of the states - parts of Hong Kong and China - Japan - Taiwan - South East Asia - Australia ( already with system under construction )

http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm

There is optic to the door provided by the utility company. It is a common carrier providing:

TV programs on demand on a big flat screen digital high definition system - programs are recorded and played as you desire, when you desire on any of the screens around the wired house you desire.

There is no need for program schedules - movies and other video content are downloaded on demand from world wide services. Some charge fees some are free with or without ads. You can watch the BBC news or CNN or C-span type programs any time.

There is no need for movie or music channels since you can order anything you want anytime.

The same with music, either rented for a limited number of replays, or purchased and transferred to CD or DVD -

The same with interactive media - games and educational services for the wired " smart" house - When you leave the security system goes on - with complete radar monitoring of any motion with recording of motion, the heat or AC is turned down, when you click from your cell phone that you are returning home - the lights and heat or AC is reset, the music turned on and the doors unsecured.

The cell phone - palm pilot - personal digital assistant works at 400 kbs to 1 Mbs with GPS, e-mail and other web content, fold up or screen keyboards, long life batteries, high gain reception of dense multiplex time division wideband GS3 codes.

The home terminal - NEXUM - provides wireless ( bluetooth ) connection to the mobile elements, TV, music, games, information systems with voice commands. You say " Write a note" and dictate as it appears on the big screen. You correct with the portable keyboard that is used for interactive TV.

The master computer works within a network "master server in the sky" to provide services you need or enjoy. Shopping, banking, tele-communities, video conferences, design and research, games and social activities, travel and adventure, and tuned to your interests and desires.

The master server bills for usage in micro pennies for "extras" but charges a flat fee for "basic services". Several master server companies compete for services on the common carrier -

The services are not tied to the wire - optic cable - so there are two bills - one for connection services - the wireless and wired ( optic ) and another from the service company that passes along charges for rentals, fee for service charges, software licenses, communications on and off net, as we do today with local and long distance phone services and premium cable services.

Where is the money made ? Optic fiber hardware - mobile hardware, utility company right-of-way and network services, the "general utility service company" maybe AOL, Microsoft, NOISE group ( Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun Microsystems and everyone else ) Amazon, or others which provides the interface between the user and service providers - banks, insurance, finance and markets, shopping, software and music and games and movies and communications, and entertainment, security, smart home management, and on and on...

The super on-line service using optic fiber to the door.

http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm

Technological search:

nano computers quantum optical network switching electronics high bandwidth photonics diode switches molecular transistors molecular logic gates Quantum Cascade Laser

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A short introduction to quantum computation

Max PLANCK and Heisenberg, and Erwin SCHRÖDINGER's wave mechanics, and Born, are the people of the 20th century who will most influence the 21 st. We will see the application of quantum computer fairly soon. It could ( so will ) have some level of self awareness we call consciousness

http://www.qubit.org/intros/comp/comp.html

Being in two places at the same time - or going from here to there without passing through the space between.

The nature of matter at this level is little energy spots rather than matter as we experience it, energy that change quantum states - transform from one state to another instantly.

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The history of computer technology has involved a sequence of changes from one type of physical realization to another --- from gears to relays to valves to transistors to integrated circuits and so on ...

On the atomic scale matter obeys the rules of quantum mechanics, which are quite different from the classical rules that determine the properties of conventional logic gates. So if computers are to become smaller in the future, new, quantum technology must replace or supplement what we have now.

The point is, however, that quantum technology can offer much more than cramming more and more bits to silicon and multiplying the clock-speed of microprocessors. It can support entirely new kind of computation with qualitatively new algorithms based on quantum principles!

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The list of companies in tele-communications

http://telecom.tbi.net/network1.htm

In short why John McCain's issues will be the central to the comming election - the spirit moves in mysterious ways.

We have bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown ) and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts, chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red ) - We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ). We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.

The history of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.

The physical body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth, position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized. This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.

When groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.

"Robert Michels"

The Iron Law of Oligarchy

Michels believed that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to serve. http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt

"Michels (1911) came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently, a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.

Those in command do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not rewarded get angry ( red ).

The early church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of kings they formed parliaments.

They claimed the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.

The church or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That sort of works.

Then they appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).

They promised the golden kingdom in the sky.

They turned love into hate and hate into love.

They discovered the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.

Now we are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.

Why has the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion, truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive of marketing ?

In short why John McCain will win over Gore and Bush - the spirit moves in mysterious ways.

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Who will keep you informed on the events just around the next bend. In the past it was OK to let others forge the way. You could wait to see how it turned out then buy your way in after the bugs had been removed. Pioneers got arrows in their backs. BUT now we are all on the frontier and can't wait until the dust settles. For example:

Dr. Pflaum ( for a fee ) will research the events and technologies that will effect your future and give you reports and advice.

FOR EXAMPLE:

Symbian, Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003 http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html

People who purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents, are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks, such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive. And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system. Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony. This will never happen.

It's a problem crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken, as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.

This device would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.

There would be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software. You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.

Services for the masses

In the near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.

Instead of buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump on it.

The technology to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as movies on demand, are probably a few years out.

The advent of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of oddballs: "computer" people.

Brett Arquette is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.

The new school

What could an relevant on-line school be like.

·                        Color is better than black and white.

·                        Three dimensions is better than two.

·                        Round is better than flat.

·                        Fast is more successful than slow.

Civilization progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man and nature, and greater freedom of participation.

Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation is discouraged at all levels.

The iron law of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.

Students in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors are black and white.

There are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:

1. ) Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes place in the process of invention

2.)

The organizing themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions not disciplines

3.) there is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions between actors and classes.

The word is convergence - Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.

The NEXUM project:

http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm

The design of the general communications and computing device.

Design teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity, storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine interface ( ergonomics http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm ) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities, applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market demand factors all in one organized package.

Management, information technology, marketing, human resources and production need to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers still have a way to go - the

NEXUM

must leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.

How is systems analysis different

from what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more dimensions.

It becomes much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications, using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all this the next time we make contact ?

Amazon.com has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric. Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales. It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different items.

A friendly server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial records and market research. Can any client using different tools access open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards, ? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing systems.

The invention of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy

Color is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors are black and white.

As I understand IT , a new type of technology using Time Synchronization Systems Through DCF77 or GPS signal and using a 10,000 MHTZ chip can transmit MEGA-BITS the last mile. In synergy with solid state atomic level MEMORY TECHNOLOGY data moves from FROM MEGA-BIT TO GIGA-BIT per second. High Speed processors adapted from TERCOM - terrain contour matching 10,000 MHz chip used in the cruise missile terrain following "smart bombs" or using guided radio waves or laser beam targeting based on rapid image recognition.

AND you add : NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE

According to CMR ( http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html ), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second. While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed, solid state, and has a different operating approach."

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