My visit to the research fair left me in the seat of our very own John Mangles. He spoke of a very interesting topic, quantum computing, the ability to use small particles such as photons in place of open and closed circuits in binary. He claimed that such a computer would be able to compute many times faster than any computer built today. Honestly, I understood none of the actual math displayed, and I did not wish to ask him about it. Though this concept is very intriguing, the actual development of this technology would be quite valuable to me. I hypothesize, not only would the processing power of computers dramatically increase, so will the storage capabilities of computers. It may allow a single computer to hold, rather than a few terabytes TB, exabytes EB of data, a million times more data than we can store now. This concept is very intriguing to me for various reasons.
Needless to say, I enjoyed my visit.
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