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THE CHINESE ARE TAKING A BIG LEAP: Final thoughts

As we continue what we started on Monday, perhaps this will be the final one. Having explained terms like the uncertainty principle yesterday and quantum entanglement. Today let’s deal with communication itself. Most human technology is built around the classical physics that Isaac Newton and his inheritors came up with (equal and opposite reactions, that sort of thing). When engineers hit on electricity, they perceived it in aggregate as a kind of a force; it’s either on, or it’s off. This understanding led to electric switches, which became transistors, and when you put all those transistors in a box and start turning them off and on with instructions encoded “11010001101”… it’s a computer. The computer I used in typing this piece is nothing more than a box of electric switches, being switched on and off, the switching is controlled by what we now call software’s not human hands. However, these switches are just like to say electron flow as ON; and no electron flow as OFF. This is