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To: elmatador who wrote (114773)	12/18/2015 3:52:22 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Recommended By Elroy Jetson Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217835

You'll find my thinking is contagious ElM. Do you remember when you tried to argue that CDMA would not work? That was when you were in Vietnam if I remember rightly. But now you are paying me each time you buy a CDMA or OFDM chip and strengthening my realm each time you emit photons into Cyberspace. You will also adopt my money. When things are better, more fun, less hate, more love, you can't help but join. That's why there are 7,000,000,000 give or take a few seething hordes of humans like a vast swarm of ants all beavering away making an Earth-sized ant nest/termite mound. Individually, we just do what we do, to benefit out little personal realms, as per our DNA coding and experiences of social context and vicissitudes of existence where we are, and that adds up to the Global Plan in a teleological triumph over atavistic stone-agers. Ted Kaczynski and the Mozzies do NOT like it. Nor do others trying to build or hold their little fiefdoms, clinging to the past where life was good. But inevitably, relentlessly, irresistibly, the winds of change blew through, at hurricane force at times. You will use Mq's patented cash. And love it. No gold required. Incidentally, with oil as cheap as it is, and since gold is made out of oil, the gold bugs can't be too happy these days. They need Armageddon. They might get it if the forces gathered on the nearby plains of Syria/Iraq/Turkey/Israel/Lebanon/Iran/Saudi Arabia etc go bananas. It's 100 years since WWI got going in a big way. 2015 has seen the start of WWIII. Turkey/USA shooting a Russian war plane could turn out to be a big mistake. Erdogan will probably regret it. He should avoid drinking tea with polonium 210 in it. Mqurice

To: elmatador who wrote (114773)	12/18/2015 5:08:12 PM
From: TobagoJack	2 Recommendations Recommended By 3bar dvdw© Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217835

saving the world from nsa scmp.com China set for quantum leaps in spook-proof communicationsChina is on track to launch the world’s biggest spook-proof quantum communications system in the next six months, one that could eventually cover Hong Kong, a leading Chinese scientist said on Friday. Beijing will send the world’s first quantum communications satellite into space in June – around the same time as it aims to put the world’s longest quantum communications network into service, according to Pan Jianwei, the projects’ chief scientist. On the sidelines of the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, Pan said the network would stretch 2,000km from Beijing to Shanghai, and be the largest and most extensive quantum communications system in the world. Quantum technology is considered to be unbreakable and impossible to hack. It encrypts messages with a key of quantum particles and detects third-party attempts to intercept the particles. Pan is a physicist and vice-president of the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, Anhui province. His team’s groundbreaking experiment on quantum teleportation was voted the most important breakthrough in the field this year by the London-based Institute of Physics. READ MORE: China to launch hack-proof quantum communication network in 2016Pan said the country’s leadership had also designated it as a top priority science development project. He said the projects’ applications would be experimental and small scale at first. “But we hope the Chinese network can be extended to cover the whole globe in one or two decades,” Pan said. He said the team was working with Alibaba, ZTE and other Chinese tech companies to commercialise the technology, and potential non-government clients included banks, financial institutes and research centres. He said they were “actively seeking cooperation with the city’s government and universities”. I think it will still take a decade or two to see quantum computers being used in everyday life “Hong Kong as a telecommunications and financial centre is ideal for quantum communication. We are talking with the Hong Kong government and universities to see how we can bring it to Hong Kong,” he said. Pan said the quantum satellite could also benefit China’s “One Belt, One Road” strategy. Meanwhile, China is also investing heavily in developing quantum computing, a potentially game-changing technology that can do many calculations simultaneously trillions of times faster than the most powerful supercomputer today. Pan said a Chinese quantum computer could match the power of the Tianhe 2 supercomputer in some areas in the next five years. The Tianhe 2 is the world’s fastest supercomputer and was also built by Chinese scientists. “I think it will still take a decade or two to see quantum computers being used in everyday life and enter the mass market. But I’m confident we will see it in our lifetime. Our age will be the quantum age,” he said. READ MORE: ‘Unhackable’ quantum broadband step closer after breakthrough by Chinese scientistsPan said China was a world leader in quantum technology but other countries were catching up. “We are now taking the lead. I hope we won’t be behind a decade down the track,” he said. Dai Yuhong, professor of applied mathematics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said society was not ready for a “quantum age”. Dai said the first users of quantum computers would have a huge unfair advantage in areas such as the financial market. Quantum technology could be a monster if we know not how to control its power. So far, nobody knows Dai Yuhong, Chinese Academy of Sciences “Quantum technology could be a monster if we know not how to control its power. So far, nobody knows,” he said. “Let’s hope the physicists are too optimistic and the first practical quantum computer is still decades away.” Luo Donggen, professor of neuroscience at Tsinghua University, said he was interested in quantum technology’s applications in the life sciences, such as building artificial brains to simulate or even overtake human brains.