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Season II, episode ii of Deep Tech matching summary outlines
October 2024
My second article of Season II matches two very very deep tech concepts: Quantum Computing and Cryptography. There are several ways of approaching the related digital business opportunities from this matching. Are both concepts compatible? Will Quantum kill the Crypto? Are both #deeptech concepts allies? What is the role of ethics? Will we have two camps each developing in a different world corner? These two very very deep tech concepts might be relevant to KashYou when taken separately, very little when combined. We are now in the Post Quantum Cryptography #pqc era.
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1.???? Given the high barrier to entry into the Quantum Cryptography, is there a business opportunity for those on the lower downstream levels of the supply chain? Can Users / Customers / Consumers influence the decisions. Is it a market restricted to International Regulators? Is this related to the EU supercomputer projects subsidies? Is post quantum cryptography supposed to make us feel safer?
The Persona I imagine for the quantum computing is a scientist, someone with thicker eyeglasses than a software programmer, and in white robe. Quantum will create much more than digital business opportunities, it will bring us new verticals, careers, university majors, rewriting corporate process flows, communication, delivery and digital processing delay expectations in #crypto and in much more. Now is the best opportunity to buy Nvidia shares.
In these PQC times, international regulators will be busy updating policies. The digital business opportunities will be in the speculation of the magnitude of the enforcement. Some policies might be challenging, such as those related to #entanglement. Scientists and compliance experts will both have to agree on roadmaps. We will witness crypto market disruption caused by these new regulations.
Supercomputer subsidy has started in Europe in 2018 with the EuroHPC initiative. There is still room for digital business opportunity for willing entrepreneurs. This might be a way through the high entry barriers maize. It could be directly within the #crypto field or not; crypto technology, blockchain, and distributed ledger technology can now be found in any #deeptech initiative, as if commoditized.
Do we feel safer with QuantumComputers? When I used to ask this question about whether the crypto on the blockchain technology would make us feel safer, the answer was: up till a supercomputer can break the cryptography. This means we were protected by technology instead of regulators and central bankers. Now the technology is shaken by another stronger and possibly more disruptive #deeptech.
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2.???? AI and quantum will keep up with MNO cyberthreat, cyberthreat is a counterweight for customer empowerment. We are limiting your freedom to protect you better. We believed that the crypto technology is one of the foundations of the distributed ledger use cases, and that the cryptographic password would protect our personal data. The digital business opportunities are in the #Edge services, the preparation for commercial quantum and how to protect the commercial quantum use cases.
I worry that under the excuse of the cybersecurity there will be an impact on #GDPR and similar personal data protection rules. GDPR was conceived on a pre-quantum-cryptography technology security keys protective understanding. The concept of Public Key Infrastructure is now disrupted. The digital business opportunity is in building a GDPR2. A new term is spreading in the MNO sector: Responsible AI or RAI, up from Native-AI.[1]
Edge services cannot be supported now. Quantum is heavy and would occupy the center of network gravity. The digital business opportunities are on the Edge perimeter of the mobile network. The opportunity is in creating and designing those #Edge solutions that should be made ready when quantum moves outwards, or if Crypto gets entangled. One use case is in strengthening the KashYou capacity and level of services. What is going to happen after quantum? The quantum potential picture is becoming clearer every day. There will be a digital business opportunity in finding what comes after #quantumcomputing, what are the main verticals, crypto or others, that will be impacted, and therefore how will the relevant stakeholders benefit from this development wave?
Cyber threat to Quantum Computers will remain but will become quantum threats. In a later episode we might match Quantum with AI, a quantum intelligence mega-brain. If #cryptography was considered iron strong, or more, 10-15 years ago, we are now looking at threats impacting humanity more than natural disasters. The digital business opportunity will be in insurance.
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3.???? Ethics occupies most of the concern when matching these 2 very very deep techs, a worrying amount of concern. As if Quantum will only be used to crack the Crypto codes. This calls for opportunities in AI governance, varying degrees of personification risks, picturing #quantum as a dangerous tool that should be controlled by official, or other, authorities. Crypto and blockchain replaced ethics and trust by technology, if quantum is superior to this technology, trust shakes.
AI governance on top of data governance is rising to prominence. It could be a digital business opportunity for subject matter experts to rewrite the policies. As if we are reinventing ethics. Just before Blockchain and Crypto, ethics were enforced by customer empowerment, the main dividend of digital transformation. GRC can police but the culture of #customercentricity carries the essence of ethics in the digital market space.
Personal identity protection is hitting a #quantum limits challenge. We use password as part of the ethical protection process. We have grown used to passwords, then grew used to memorizing, then changing them. Now passwords will become crypto-dynamic. Passwords are meant to passively protect us and protect our identity from unethical behavior. The digital business opportunity is in finding an identifying protection other than the password.
Is Quantum a weapon? What we read is equivalent to enriching uranium. Quantum Computing is turning towards falling in the threat quadrant instead of a top opportunity that will save the planet, like the #crypto safety. The digital business opportunity is in the clear commercial civilian verticals, the use case contributable here is KashYou in case the technology offers a business sense.
Who should own Quantum Computing? From ethics point of view, who would you trust? Computers are #aethical, should we change the way computers behave, or it is easier to redefine ethics and start accepting the fall? The digital business opportunity is to help reach a governance or a #grc solution for both quantum computers and cryptography, no matter who owns the technology.
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4.???? Splintered Tech is happening, we have US Vs China deep techs’ camps. It is not only about Cognac custom duties. The US embargo on Huawei is taking a wider turn. I see it as an opportunity for new oceans, where interoperable #quantum and #crypto solutions will find a place. It could turn into a dramatic division of 2 blocks, but I still see an opportunity in the bridging of both camps.
New oceans will be created, just like the Apple and Samsung each owning white oceans, now maybe Huawei’s Honor brand is becoming the third; each with its own operating system. Having 2 blocks of #Quantum computing, later two blocks of cryptos, making room for additional white oceans. China Mobile on one side and Verizon on the other could become pure one-sided cases, but is too early to extend the list much farther. All food for digital business opportunities.
An opportunity for agnostic tech, fair share and translation platforms. This means the digital business opportunities born from the splintering. If each of USA and China are running their shows separately, there will still remain unaligned solution providers that would become compatible with both or use a translation platform for the #quantum and the #crypto. The digital business opportunity is in the translation between the splintered parties.
Are we witnessing the setting-up of the battlefield for the WWIII technological war? The positions are being hardening lately. There are no foreseen digital business opportunities in case of a WWIII. For the time-being the interoperability in #quantum and #crypto is still unscathed and being reinforced. If we start by separating the quantum computing technology on the top, will it cascade down to the User on limiting the choice of the smartphone brands?
The opportunity in bridging the two new hemispheres is obvious. There will still be hardliners that will not tolerate having an element from the other side. My first reaction is that most of the iPhone parts are still manufactured in China. Cryptography is universal, until we prove the nationality of #Satoshi. The race will be in whose quantum computer and its downstream dependencies will have more impact. The digital business opportunity is in avoiding to choose your camp.
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The title of this episode sounds like the material that can destroy a superman. We were held under the impression that cryptography can last till the time a supercomputer could break the HEX code fast enough. Later we believed that it was the same persona using the Crypto HEX and having a stake in building the supercomputer or quantum computer, therefore the HEX was safe; it would be stupid to shoot oneself in the foot. These were only failed hypotheses. Fortunately, not everything in life is Crypto, still it is too big to afford its failure.
I have revealed four out of the seven #deeptechs of Series II: disruptive entrepreneurship, Banking-as-a-Service #baas, quantum computing and crypto. The next episode, due November 2024, will reveal IoT and cloud deep tech technologies. Views are my own and puns are intended.
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