Post-quantum

As research continues on quantum computers, we are quickly approaching the post-quantum age.

Once the need for post-quantum public-key cryptography is established, the question arises what it means for a public-key scheme to be secure in a post-quantum world.

Computing with Shor’s algorithm is a little further on the horizon than other applications. But adapting to a new post-quantum landscape isn’t just a quick patch download.

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is stepping in to prepare for this post-quantum future.

The challenge for post-quantum cryptographers is to encode messages and other data using math problems so complex that even quantum computers can't solve them.

Marti took us to the Laboratory of Human Evolution, a small library of Mothernalia containing books about quantum and pseudo-quantum and post-quantum science, several copies of Rupert Sheldrake, the nine volumes of the Agenda (Mother's diaries) out on loan, nine tapes of Mother's edited conversations in both French and English.

However, before anyone nominates me for a Nobel Prize for solving the mystery of telepathy, I should add that it cannot yet be explained in terms of post-quantum science either.

Even if we do develop a post-quantum explanation of reality, however, we must keep in mind the metaphorical nature of such a model and its limitation as a metaphor for understanding only certain aspects of reality.