Quantum Supremacy…

Thoughts

So normally these little book reviews I throw up here, I do right after I finish each book. It’s like a sense of accomplishment for me. No matter how small. I just like to finish something and then move onto the next task. However, much like the subject matter of this book this has changed up everything of my normal workflow. The book I got as a gift entitled, “Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything”, by Michio Kaku got me to start this review concurrently as I read this book.

The main reason for doing it on this one, has mainly has to deal with the fact that I have no idea what I am reading! Now there is some exaggeration in that statement, but not for every chapter of this book. It’s so interesting to really understand how the next big technological advancement is going to work and shape our lives as we know it.

To put it in some frame of mind that the average reader would understand is the fact that quantum computers basically confirm that we are living within a multiverse. A quantum computer is going to be able to help enhance the medical industry being able to run simulations and completely reconstruct life at the molecular level, something that digital computers don’t have the capacity for. On top of all of that it’s going to reshape how we store and transport data, because at the basic understanding of quantum, we will no longer be restricted to 0’s and 1’s. We’ll be able to read a spectrum of elections that can be in two places at once (crazy right?!), thus representing multiple pieces of information at once. I am not explaining my excitement well through this article, but it’s going to completely advance our society I think in the next 20ish years, once things become more readily available.

Throughout most of the book Michio explains many of the theories and laws of physics and chemistry and how the quantum theory has been 100% bulletproof when disputing the normal laws of physics in the real world. Quantum is going to shape many of the industries as we know it. The book was written I would guess a few years prior to 2023, and it’s cool to see in the headlines now that are becoming a reality that Kaku was talking about in this book.

The second half of the book goes into detail about the industries where quantum is going to have the biggest industry, which is in the health industry. Since quantum computers will be able to simulate large amounts of molecules and atoms they will be able to decode proteins, atoms, and different chemicals. It’s all so fascinating and over my head to elaborately explain in this quick review. I didn’t care to much about the chemistry, but the implications of it, and Dr. Kaku does a great job of simplifying everything and putting things into simple applications that the average person can understand.

Lastly, and I won’t spoil the last few chapters of the book, because it’s worth picking this book up. Deal with the bigger questions of the universe and how (or who) was it created. As I read the last chapter of the book, I realized just how fast we advanced as a species to be able to even theorize about a quantum computer and start getting close to answering the questions of the universe.

If you are a techie and want to be on the forefront of the next leap in technological advancement, I highly recommend this book. Dr. Kaku also adds in some humor and simplifies quantum for any layman to understand (that will require you re-read the chapters only about 7 times).