DARQ- The new shining powerhouse

DARQ Technologies!!

When I first heard ‘DARQ’ technologies, I was 100% sure this is some new buzz word in the world of cybersecurity. Something to do with hacking. However, after researching more about this new buzz word it became more and more clear that this is not just a buzzword. But in fact, this is the future. A complete powerhouse of technology. While the SMAC (social, mobile, analytics, and cloud) convergence was the foundation of the digital age, the post-digital age is DARQ. This powerhouse is standing on four pillars of technologies:

1.     Distributed Ledger

2.     Artificial Intelligence

3.     Extended Reality

4.     Quantum Computing

These technologies and their applications are getting adapted and are expected to grow exponentially in the coming future. DARQ power is a set of the most advance and emerging technologies streaming today that includes.

Let us understand each pillar of DARQ in detail:

Distributed Ledger

We are living in an age where people, devices, and machines interact with each creating a digital socio-economic world. In this world and age Authentication, Authorization, and Non-repudiation has the limelight now. In a hyper-connected world trust in the virtual world is key. Distributed Ledger offers the trust-building utilities for information verification and control, data, and privacy. Distributed Ledger is a type of transactional technology allowing consumers and businesses to transfer money as well as other important details in a manner not previously possible. The most widely used examples are cryptocurrency and blockchain, in other words, we can say Distributed ledger is the backbone of cryptocurrency and blockchain. The source of original data is a single point and with that people can easily transact money and convey important details without any fear of data breach or hacking. The data is not only conveyed safely but also is verified once reached the destination by the source. This provides double layer protection of data. Its utility lies in making data validation and non-repudiation redundant. Many companies, as well as government agencies, are using this technology to transfer important data. The idea of the system is to simply distribute or decentralize the old central mechanism of storing and transfer data. DLT allows for the storage of all information securely and accurately using cryptography. The same can be accessed using “keys” and cryptographic signatures. Once the information is stored, it becomes an immutable database and is governed by the rules of the network. The idea of a distributed ledger is not new, and many organizations do maintain data at different locations.

Although a lot of research and development is going on in this field, this technology has already seen increasing use and demand in many industries. With more focus on privacy on data, many big social networking sites are set to implement this model into their system, to achieve privacy as well as prevent data breaching attacks.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Artificial Intelligence is one of the leading technologies as of the current scenario and with advancements. AI enables us to build amazing software that can improve health care, help people to overcome physical disadvantages, empower smart infrastructure, and many more. Simply put, AI is nothing but software that imitates human behaviours and capabilities. With the help of AI, many businesses can process large amounts of data in a fraction of second, get streamline results and make predictions about their market and growth.

Businesses and companies are automating tasks and thus reducing the human effort in machinery work, rather employees are being engaged in more productive works where human interaction is a must. The accuracy is increasing with each passing day and it is accurate as high as 95% in the current scenario.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and its constellation of technologies are front and centre in producing technology-driven business and customer interactions more efficiently, faster, and at lower costs. Across sectors, AI is optimizing processes to improve decision-making from smart cars, diagnosing illnesses, participating in debate, writing realistic text, to running presidential campaigns.

Key elements include:

·    Machine learning - This is often the foundation for an AI system, and is the way we "teach" a computer model to make a prediction and draw conclusions from data.

·    Anomaly detection - The capability to automatically detect errors or unusual activity in a system.

·    Computer vision - The capability of software to interpret the world visually through cameras, video, and images.

·    Natural language processing - The capability for a computer to interpret written or spoken language, and respond in kind.

·    Conversational AI - The capability of a software "agent" to participate in a conversation.

Extended Reality (XR)

Extended Reality (XR) is extensively used in the entertainment industry and provides people to interact with the world in much simpler ways. Extended reality is derived from virtual and augmented reality. This technology deals with two realities that are created by humans. VIRTUAL REALITY: Virtual reality is to create a simulated environment that is observed by the human with the help of a lens or a projected. The graphics are created in such a condition that they replicate the exact situation for the viewer. ARGUMENTED REALITY: Augmented reality is the insertion of data or information in an image. This technology is very common in smartphones today. Where an app is programmed to display specific information in the image.

Many companies have been using Extended reality to provide value and new experiences to their clients and customers. Extended reality can create a fictional world, an idealized model for businesses to test their products and services before launching into the real world.

Employees/clients can also collaborate from separate locations in ways previously not possible, such as working on the design phase of new products. With the widespread use of 4G and 5G(in near future), extended reality can be used to test almost everything, which is not possible in the real world. Faster and more intelligent computers, cheaper storage, and hyper-speed networks are enabling Augmented reality to move beyond aircraft simulators into everyday lives. Be it gaming, telemedicine, or virtual meetings – XR is beginning to become omnipresent and could disrupt the way we work and play.

The challenge is to bring these capabilities to life in useful, relevant and progressive ways – to make life better, to help us all achieve more. Extended reality (XR) promises to be a game-changer. Together with AI, XR makes for serious business. For XR to shape and augment the world as we know it, businesses must invest in network connectivity, application development, and most importantly, processing power.

Quantum Computing (QC)

Quantum Computing, also known as micro computing, is a powerful and dynamic ability to solve all those problems which were earlier not possible to solve. QC is necessary to power next-generation technologies, yet it is the costliest piece of the DARQ paradigm. refers to computation that is based on the laws of quantum physics. The basic principle of quantum computation is that the quantum properties can be used to represent and structure data and that quantum mechanisms can be devised and built to perform operations with this data. But building a large quantum computer could help us in computing typical mathematical equations and problems. Unlike normal computer based on the transistor, a quantum computer is more accurate and quick With more and more focus on dynamic and powerful computing researchers are now able to create computers, which will solve some of the most complex problems. The main problem encountered here is the cost of quantum computers, which is very expensive. As a result, many companies are not able to use these powerful machines. Quantum computing will enable and empower us in the field of science, as many complex problems till this date have been unsolved, which might be solved using Quantum computers.

When it comes to processing, Quantum computing (QC) is a holy grail in solving the toughest computational problems. Quantum computers have the potential for pathbreaking applications in material design, logistics, AI and Machine learning, encryption, manufacturing, finance and even energy to name a few. Recently, Google announced ‘quantum supremacy’. Sycamore, Google’s quantum computer, calculated a task in 3 minutes, 20 seconds which otherwise, the world’s best supercomputer, Summit, would have taken 10,000 years to compute. Google says its colossal D-Wave 2X quantum computing machine has been figuring out algorithms at 100,000,000 times the speed of a traditional computer chip can.

So now that we know that are the pillars of the DARQ technologies. Even though this is termed as DARQ (pronounced as DARK), this is the new shining light of the future.