It might be a stretch of the imagination to conceptualize non-digital, non-binary information processing, like that accomplished by integrated circuits like the SOC in your latest smartphone or web connected wearable technology, like my 8th Gen. Apple Watch!
Finding useful information from a sea of noise & chaos in reality, in the real world, to produce useful insight, tactically valuable information, something insightful that results in innovation or improvement, near learning, information that improves life, information that heals someones mind or body! I am all about anything to make life better for everyone, for all people, for all of nature, for all animals & ecosystems. I love other people & life because I love God & my Wife!
Most computer system today utilize transistors to switch on off signals processing machine code to stream processes 0 as off & 1 as on, since a transistor contains an input, gate, & dump, such that power entering the input can cross the gate if power applied to the semi-conductor gate, thus allowing the power to exit the dump into the input of another transistor. In this way billions of transistors are connected in chips or integrated circuit chipsets. This technique brought information technology far, but as we approach the atomic limits, such that the transistors have features sizes defined by atoms themselves, below 5 angstroms, some 10+ years in the future, then an entirely new architecture of information processing technology relying on quantum computing will be required to energize further innovation in compute!
I am an emotional feeling being who has an intrinsic sense of right & wrong, morality & ethics, even when I make mistakes at times, especially knowing that I am capable of more or doing better! Fully aware that I can continually self improve using stuff I learn from other people, other people that I depend on for my food, air, water, income & life; other people that I am learning to love more as the Love that God shares with me overflows from my heart & mind! I am not a quitter & will never give up promoting good in the world, especially knowing that doing so will help at least one other person to turn away from a life of habitual sin just like I did! I know that other people are capable of improving & believe in their infinite capacities to do good in the world, to make life better for everyone in ways that I could never do or even image.
Todays compute hardware almost entirely ceramic, hard, rigid & fixed in nature, with FPGA's being a notable exception. Analog information handling an elegant under-explored area of tech that is fertile for rich product development especially with mixed signal processing in self driving vehicles & other artificial intelligence applications, in cryptography & cryptocurrencies.
The future of compute is wetware & flexible, adaptive, like neuron plasticity in the human brain. Imagine liquid information processing that wires together as the information fires together, adaptively, continually changing in response to the input signals of all different kinds, untethered & unlinked from human sensory organs limitations to many kinds of signal sensing that covers a wider gamut of the electrodynamic spectrum, something NASA calls multi-spectral imaging.
Think even more colors & frequencies, endlessly extending in every direction. Now we have an idea of the infinite states of a Q-bit, an analog high performance information processing technology where the Q-bit can assume a huge number of states simultaneously. This means a tiny coin cell 2032 battery can power a coin sized computer with a less-than 1w Q-bit processor, to enable a products like that smart Apple Air-Tag disc that people attach to bags, purses, backpacks & other assets they would like to locate with their iPhone.
A low power small array of several hundred Q-bits can outperform many megawatts of server cloud compute on traditional computing hardware, with specific use cases that mirror the amazing burst processing performance of human thinking, predictive analytics, imagination & the best kinds of human creative thought & problem solving, and solution development. Our brains are not digital, they are electrochemical analog gradients of information happening in biochemistry, still poorly understood, especially the mind since its not the brain but requires a brain to function, thought itself called into question since there are so many different things to think about or ways of thinking about things! Even the nervous system of a small flying insect like a bee is vastly more computationally efficient than even the latest 3nm prototype internal development SOC chipsets being optimized for later commercialization by Intel.
Think about smart clothes in 2030 that become part of your nervous system, with super conductor wire sensors weaved into the fabric, so that you can control them with nerves naturally. The ultimate computer brain interface that's completely natural & super easy to use with intuitive interface that adapts to each person dynamically, such that the wearable information technology becomes as much about the user & the way the user makes interesting use of such technology in individual, unique & distinctive ways, since everyone is slightly different in many different ways, thankfully. Adaptive smart clothe swill offer best in class health tracking, fitness tracking, body motion tracking, frame movement analysis, joint analysis, athletic coaching, automatic adaptive fitness training, injuring minimization, weight lifting coaching, muscle development coaching, endurance training, physical therapy modes, injury recovery modes, advance accelerated healing modes. Some of the best smart clothing will be able to use electrical pulses to stimulate muscles in specific patterns to help build strength, or to prevent muscle loss, to enhance the array of possible features that such clothes can offer their wearers.
By weaving conductors into the fabric, the garment becomes the antenna for all the wireless features & communication methods. I can envision radar using weaved MIMO antenna arrays and beam forming to enable 8G gigabit enhanced wifi & mobile technology. We can already see the progression in wireless from 3G to 4G to 5G & that will keep going. There will be an iPhone 20 at some point, a Samsung Galaxy Gear X. They will keep iteratively step-wise improving smart IoT or internet of things devices, since the sizzle sells the steak. As we move beyond lithium batteries in mobile devices, future batteries will offer much faster charging times, fireproof, puncture proof, water proof, freeze proof, high temperature resistances, longer cycle life, longer calendar life, lower cost per unit of energy stored, better energy density, better recyclability; future batteries will be all around better & they will be many more options for different use cases.
Mobile energy platforms scales from nanowatt in the most efficient digital wrist watches to megawatts in vehicle mounted rail guns or laser cannons or other directed energy weapons. Man portable electronics typically peak at around 50kw with electric paramotor backpack fans that push users hanging from a nylon parasailing wing forward at about 35 MPH (50 km/h). Most smartphones have about 10 watt hours of battery capacity, while a typical smartwatch has about 0.4 watt hours capacity. Today most portable consumer electronics are limited by lithium cobalt polymer batteries made of films of coated foils wrapped together, then flattened, sealed, filled with electrolyte, then BMS attached by laser welding in an inert gas environment inside a lower grade clean-room, like the LiPo batteries used in an iPhone 14 for example!
The battery in a portable electronic limits the compute possible in small form factors. Much headway has been made to fit a lot of compute capacity into battery powered smartphone, in some cases as powerful computational as a tablet or laptop that has a much larger capacity battery, but corresponding larger power hungrier screen. The optical computer interface, human eyes & touch interacting with color screens, that's a very slow IO between the device & our brain.
Consider how you are reading this blog posting, the light from the screen entering your eyes where your retina feeds signals to your brain where language processing makes sense of the black text marks compared with the white background in the high contract text window of the blog posting, so that you can attempt to make sense of what I am trying to tell you, that as time goes on computers will more closely mirror biological brains, wet, massively parallel, analog, low power, connected, adaptive, plastic, flexible, soft, wetware.
Flexible even a trending concept for compliant surfaces and joint in robotics today, especially from the grippers that grasp products in manufacturing, or to give the robot tactile feedback like human finger touch does, in a early limited way that will obviously continue to improve. Tire technology for passenger & race vehicles has improve a lot over the last 100 years such that polymers are much more resilient, tougher, stronger & longer lasting, enabling flexible soft polymers that are very resistant to cutting or damage or abrasion with excellent durability, long lasting, high performance, like the latest F1 racing tires from Michelin in Formula E or electric race cars.
Q-bit originate from an academic research paper from 1995, by Benjamin Schumacher, that was actually created during a conversation, used in jest for comedic effect.
To get back to the post topic, consider the introduction paragraph on the related Wiki article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubit
In quantum computing, a qubit (/ˈkjuːbɪt/) or quantum bit is a basic unit of quantum information—the quantum version of the classic binary bitphysically realized with a two-state device.In classical computer technologies, a processed bit is implemented by one of two levels of low DC voltage, and whilst switching from one of these two levels to the other, a so-called "forbidden zone" between two logic levels must be passed as fast as possible, as electrical voltage cannot change from one level to another instantaneously.
There are two possible outcomes for the measurement of a qubit—usually taken to have the value "0" and "1", like a bit or binary digit. However, whereas the state of a bit can only be either 0 or 1, the general state of a qubit according to quantum mechanics can be a coherent superposition of both.[2] Moreover, whereas a measurement of a classical bit would not disturb its state, a measurement of a qubit would destroy its coherence and irrevocably disturb the superposition state. It is possible to fully encode one bit in one qubit. However, a qubit can hold more information, e.g., up to two bits using superdense coding.
For a system of n components, a complete description of its state in classical physics requires only n bits, whereas in quantum physics it requires 2n complex numbers(or a single point in a 2n-dimensional vector space).[3]
An analog computer or analogue computer is a type of computer that uses the continuous variation aspect of physical phenomena such as electrical, mechanical, or hydraulic quantities (analog signals) to model the problem being solved.
Analog computers can have a very wide range of complexity.
Analog computers were widely used in scientific and industrial applications even after the advent of digital computers, because at the time they were typically much faster, but they started to become obsolete as early as the 1950s and 1960s, although they remained in use in some specific applications, such as aircraft flight simulators, the flight computer in aircraft, and for teaching control systems in universities.
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