Transcript 0:00 Talk to me. Information, news, and entertainment on demand. WS Radio.com. 0:11 [upbeat music] Welcome to The Peggy Smedley Show, the voice of IoT in our connected world, with your host, Peggy Smedley. Hello, listeners, and welcome back to The Peggy Smedley Show. 0:25 For our final segment, I'd like to welcome back one of our monthly regulars. Please welcome technology and business consultant, Craig Brown. Craig, welcome to the show. Hey. Thanks, Peggy. Thanks for having me back. 0:38 So Craig, today we have been talking about quantum computing, and we've been talking about all this, uh, autonomous driving stuff, so much going on, but I guess I wanna get your take. 0:47 I know you've been doing a lot out there in all this tech and business world. What... 0:51 You know, how does it, all of this stuff in your mind, differ from quantum computing from d- I guess I should say traditional computing technology? 1:01 What's your take to help people understand when they're out there trying to figure it all out? Sure. 1:07 So w- computing is typically, you know, analyzing data and then coming up with a solution based on what the data provides. 1:15 But what quantum computing does is it looks at the data, it slices it in pieces, and it comes up with options. 1:23 So when you're thinking about, you know, autonomous cars, you're talking about all of the decisions that need to be made simultaneously to keep the driver safe, the car on the road, and also be aware of all the things that are happening around that vehicle. 1:37 With typical computing, it, it c- has to look at things in sequence, but with quantum computing, it can, it can basically analyze all the things around the car, make decisions based on all those various aspects, and then, uh, and keep the driver safe. 1:52 So when we look at this right now, you know, there's all kinds of difference opinions right now about the advantages of quantum computing provide, and is it really that big of a deal for this whole connected car world that we're in right now, or, you know, is it just more hype, you know, right now? 2:11 L- l- well, uh, [laughs] I think today it's probably a, a combination of at least some hype- Okay... because there's not a lot of test cases that prove that it will work. 2:21 But when we look at what quantum computing is supposed to do, we're talking about, for example, cars typically only have one camera. It's the rear camera, okay, in today's, today's market. 2:32 So the c- the camera's purpose is just to allow the driver to see behind them. Futuristically, cameras will be, um, a part of the sensors that will allow the car to know where it is on the road and know what's around it. 2:45 Quantum computing has the capability theoretically to analyze im- images in real time, okay? So when it's not gonna be dependent on the operating system, which is what a lot of computing today, today is still based on. 2:59 So when we look at this in the big scheme of thing, and we look at the speed of all of this that's going to happen, that's where we're really escalating all of this. 3:08 So when everybody thinks about this and we talk about... Because that's what we're really talking about when we think about autonomous vehicles and the delay and all of these kind of things that we're really looking at. 3:19 Are, are we saying... But we're, we're saying we don't even really have this first quantum computer that we're really gonna see fully functional. 3:27 I mean, we're talking about, you know, the big dogs are all in the race right now, and they're all trying to get it, and they're saying they're, they've got them, they're working on them, but are we really talking about delivering something that's fully functional? 3:40 W- w- well, we don't have autonomous vehicle q- quantum computing yet, but we do have quantum computing. Quantum computing right now is being used, um, in the machine learning world. 3:51 It's also being used for pattern recognition and, uh, anomaly detection. 3:55 They're also using quantum computing to improve the quality of cybersecurity, um, to run tests and, and, and, and, you know, break through, uh, walls versus waiting for, um, you know, um, folks to, you know, break in before they do. 4:10 So, so quantum computing does exist. It, it works, but the applications that are involved right now aren't, aren't on the same level when we start talking about autonomous vehicles. So then talk to me about that. 4:22 Talk to me about the impact on cybersecurity because there's a lot of discussion that if we do this whole fully quantum computing world, we're gonna have to change the way we connect everything, and all of our cybersecurity issues are going to dramatically change. 4:41 So is it going to have a really big impact then on cybersecurity for pros or cons? I, I believe so. Right now quantum computing's being used to run tests against firewall, um, to, to, to confirm detection is working. 4:57 Um, they're simulating hackers, and they're using quantum computing to bombard, um, you know, firewalls and, and security measures and protocols with a variety of known, um, uh, infiltrators. 5:09 Um, and it's doing it, you know, tens of thousands of instructions per millisecond. So it does exist. It, it... but it's all... And from, from my understanding and my research, it's all still, uh, in the testing phases. 5:22 I don't think anyone has quantum computing in production. And if they do, um, it's, it's probably top secret that they're not even letting folks know. 5:32 So when you think about that, when you think about all that will happen, do you think, and this was the question that I, I asked our last guest, about the idea of are we just in kind of... 5:44 it's kind of a maybe a bad analogy, just a race, you know, with the bad guys. You know, we're trying to get quantum computing, and the bad guys are saying, "Yeah, we'll figure out a way to hack that too. 5:54 We figured out a way to hack blockchain. We'll figure out a way to hack quantum." Well, it's, you know, it's one, they're smarter, we'll be smarter, you know?I think the answer is yes. I think we're always in a race. 6:07 I think the bad guys spend the time to break the things that we say are fixed. 6:12 Um, I think the most recent presidential election issues with, with, uh, of with security issues tells us that it's not just in with banks anymore. It's not just in finance. It's not just with your credit cards. 6:24 It's now in a variety of places that we don't typically assume that hackers even want data for. So the data security is, is, is, is, is, is everywhere now. 6:35 It's not just specific types of data, and I think we are in a race. 6:40 So when we look at all this, and, and this is an interesting question for you with all of this, we talk about we want to make a safer world for everyone, and we've now armed all of our drivers with all these connected devices. 6:55 We've armed all of the hackers with all this great information and, and we... You just said the elections, and they've got all this information about everybody and who's gonna, who they wanna put into power. 7:06 How do we, how do we now say enough's enough? Did we do everything backwards? Mm-hmm. Did we not say, look, you know, if we're gonna do it... 7:15 Our last guest also talked about possibly looking at things a little differently. You know, if you're gonna have autonomous vehicles in some way, like a plane, we always have a pilot there, but we properly train them. 7:27 Well, we've already given our drivers these tools, and they already think they should have them, and we're not properly training them with the tools. Are we doing the same thing here? 7:36 I mean, we've already said, "Here, here, have your, you know, your phone. You know, look at it. Don't look at it." You know, you're, you think you could beat the system and you, you're in an accident. 7:46 What are we doing here? I mean, are, uh, do we have to go backwards with everything? I think the answer is probably yes. 7:53 Uh, and I say it that way because we gave users smartphones with apps to access our bank accounts before the security measures to protect that data were fully implemented. That's backwards, right? 8:08 That, that, that capability should not have even been released until there was an assurity that that data is safe, right? 8:14 So with that being said, yes, I think that the marketplace and the technology and the things that are driving to get consumers to purchase and, and basically bring the profits into this technology, um, and using innovato-innovation to make money is out, outdriving the, the actual nece-necessities to protect the data in that technology and, uh, and, and make sure that we all have the standards in place to ensure that, you know, all developers and all technological, you know, institutions understand how the technology works and, and where the safety protocols should be, should be placed. 8:50 I don't know, Craig. Every time you're on, we seem to solve the problems of the technology world. [laughs] Where can our listeners go up to your website to get more information and work with you? 9:00 Yep, my website is craigbrownphd.com. All right. Well, you know it, keep coming on our show. By the time the year's over, Craig, we will have solved every tech problem there is known to mankind. That is our goal. 9:12 [laughs] Thank you. All right, Craig. Good to talk to you again. Take care. We'll be with you soon. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. 9:18 All right, listeners, we're out of time for this week, and we hope you get up and tweet at us at ConnectedWMag. We wanna hear what you want to listen to, so send me a tweet, and we'll be sure to put it up there. 9:29 If you haven't been up to connectedworld.com, get up there. We put up the latest show. And remember, we are broadcast live every Tuesday at twelve PM Central. 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