Computing the Impossible #TechVision Across the computing landscape there are experience the incremental and anticipatable machines emerging that will make these core innovation of the past, rather, once we begin challenges achievable. Quantum is the pinnacle crossing the computational thresholds needed of next generation problem solving, but high to solve these problems, the walls around performance computers (HPC), or massive industries will start to fall – fast. parallel processing supercomputers, can also help businesses take advantage of the swaths Let’s be blunt: The world of computational of data inherent to the digital world that may theory and hardware is not something many be too expensive or inefficient for traditional non-technical executives think about often – computing. And biology-inspired compute is a but they can’t afford to be caught unaware. new class of capabilities that draws inspiration This transformation is not happening tomorrow, from or relies directly on natural biological but development is well underway, and each processes to store data, solve problems, or new benchmark means being one step closer model complex systems in fundamentally to unimaginable enterprise capabilities. As such, different ways. These three sets of machines leaders must position themselves to have front will dramatically reduce the difficulty of solving row seats to the evolution of this field. They some of the world’s deepest challenges – the must build the in-roads and partnerships to very things that define the value businesses understand what the latest developments are, bring to their customers. both in their industry and the field at large, and they must begin experimenting and designing What’s more, one school of thought believes that the skills pipeline to ensure their company is as we begin to solve some of these intractable ahead of developments, not chasing the wave problems it is extremely likely the very same of disruption when it hits. Ultimately, enterprise algorithms will be just as effective at solving leaders across every industry should be asking others. In other words, an algorithm that lets themselves: What if we were the first to solve us quickly design a crossword puzzle very well our industry’s deepest challenge? may help us design an algorithm needed for efficient protein folding. This means we will not Introduction // WebMe // Programmable World // The Unreal // Computing the Impossible 76