quantum-revolution

We'll begin to see the outlines of Priscilla Fabrication. We're talking about the ultimate holy grail of nanotechnology. The ability to create something out of almost nothing. The coming revolution, the revolution that's going to happen when we really learn how to manipulate matter at the molecular level, the subatomic level, is going to take everyone, including me by surprise because it really removes the barrier to doing pretty much anything you want. Anything that you can see around you, including yourself that's solid, is only a pattern. It's a pattern of atoms and molecules. And if you know it, it's a manipulate those patterns, then really the possibilities are absolutely endless. The quantum revolution radically challenges the way we view the world. It's already transformed some of the ideas from science fiction and turned them into science fact. Here in Vienna, one of the most fantastic concept of science fiction has already been turned into reality. And in fact, it may represent our ultimate mastery over matter itself. It's called teleportation. In my group, we have a chief teleportation ten years ago. And we are doing it on a regular basis, all the time, improving adding new things and so on. So it's a simple fact. teleportation exists. This is the world's first teleportation machine. With it, Professor Anton Silerner and his team are teleporting individual particles of light, called photons from one prism to another. And it can happen over any distance. The present record about distance interpretation is as 600 meters. This was done by our group from one side of the river then you're over to another side. But there are no limits. We might do it someday to the moon or to Mars or who knows. Professor Silerner is inducing a peculiar state in his particles of light. It's called quantum entanglement. It's a mysterious bond between a pair of photons. When you change one, the other changes instantly. So the photon itself is teleported, just the information it contains. What we really teleport in quantum teleportation is the information carried by a system. This information is teleported over to another system, which assumes exactly that information. It becomes a tentative with the original. The original loses its properties. And the new one is made up of different methods, not the same methods as the original. What's interesting is that the original photons information is lost, which could have huge implications for teleporting anything on a larger scale. Is it out of the question? Or is it just very, very difficult to teleport a dog, or a cat, or a human? We can dream. And if it dream about teleportation of humans, then all kinds of questions arise. Like, what does it mean to be me? And someone teleports me and I know that what is being teleported is information and not met, not the stuff I made of. Who is it who ends up over there? How does a average person react to the fact that you have to be destroyed in order to have your state teleported? Suppose we put an end in the newspaper, just for fun. Just for fun, we put an end in the newspaper, which says that we want to try teleportation of people and we look for volunteers. But we cannot guarantee that it will be successful 100%. Maybe only 10 or 20%. I bet many people would show up and want to be the first one to teleport to you with my talk saying, In the next few years, scientists will teleport the first simple molecule. Then complex molecules, perhaps the first virus within a decade or so. Teleporting a human may seem impossible advanced, but science has changed our world faster than it has ever done in human history. If you'd have told me 20 years ago that my mobile phone was able to pinpoint my position using the network of satellites to within a couple of meters, then I would have almost certainly not believe you. But now the global position in the system is in everybody's car and it's appearing in everybody's mobile phones and in watches. So the remarkable things do happen. And actually there happen in smaller and smaller time into those progress as accelerating. We are witnessing an unparalleled explosion in scientific knowledge. We've learned more in the past 50 years than in all of human history. And why is that? It's because of the synergy, the intense interplay between the three great revolutions, the quantum, computer, and biotech revolutions. Now when these revolutions work in harmony, they feed off each other and unleash a tidal wave of scientific discovery. And this synergy will only accelerate into the 21st century giving us technologies that we can only dream about. One of the best examples of the impact of this powerful synergy is the Human Genome Project. Back in 1985, when people were talking about sequencing the human genome, well most sensible people thought that first of all it was probably impossible. And that if it were possible, it would take till the year 2015 and cost the earth. Well of course it happened much faster than that in the year 2000 for only a few billion. Trump changed as these things go. And the reason is that the price of the computer kept on dropping and dropping and dropping and that's what people who were projecting the future hadn't taken into consideration. There are scores of examples of the synergy between these three great revolutions. For example, we now use laser beams to scan hundreds of genes at any one given time. And then we use supercomputers to process this vast amount of genetic information. But it's not only genes, we're using supercomputers to reveal the secrets of everything from proteins to the human brain. synergy is truly leading us toward mastery of matter and life. It's basically the rate of technical progress and its impact is doubling every decade. And exponential growth is quite phenomenal. It literally means that these technologies which already very influential will be a billion times more powerful than the odds of the age 25 years from now. And that's really quite transformative. We're beginning to be able to take control of the workings of our minds, our memories, our metabolisms, our personalities, and our kids. We have the means through genetics, robotics, information, and nanotechnology to control matter and energy and life itself at the most basic levels. We've never seen anything like this before. And this is raising profound questions about what it means to be human and what our lives and our futures and our children will be like. The intense cross-pollination between the computer, biotech and the quantum revolutions will give us unprecedented power in the 21st century. The power to create a planetary civilization, a civilization based on progress, scientific knowledge and trust, or on the other hand, the power to unleash unparalleled chaos and energy on the Earth. The choice is ours and the time to discuss these questions is now. That's because the current generation holds the future of the Earth in its hands.