Computing the Impossible ACTIONS TO TAKE Forging Tomorrow’s Industries The computers that will create and fuel the next generation of industry are already being built, and enterprises need to be part of this wave or risk being swept away by it. They will need to understand how these new have the skill sets to fully answer these questions forms of compute may be used to solve the today – which is why enterprises need to start unique problems facing their business – and they acting now to identify their knowledge gaps need to start today. The good news? We can and begin filling them in before it’s too late. forecast where things are starting to happen. Just like Shor’s algorithm, the impact can be shown And this should not be left as a thought on paper before it can be seen in the real world. experiment. Those looking to take an active role There’s no excuse for getting caught by surprise. in shaping the next wave of industry should be asking themselves what hardware they can start The quickest action to take is to begin evaluating building or using to be the first to solve their how these technologies will shape the operations biggest and most impossible problems. Just of your enterprise. What problems are simply as Tesla built the Dojo supercomputer to push considered the cost of doing business? How itself – and the entire auto industry – closer to its would it reshape the business if you could vision of the future, all other companies should start solving those problems? Which class of be looking for those white space opportunities machines is likely to impact your enterprise where more specialized or more powerful earliest? Frankly, most businesses don’t even computing can broadly influence their industry. Introduction // WebMe // Programmable World // The Unreal // Computing the Impossible 85