Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Obsessed with the thought of Binary?

What is with binary and the world? Right from the ancestral ages we have been obsessed with two. Its has always been Good & Evil, Right & Wrong, Success & Failure, 1's & 0's. It has always been one thing and the opposite of it. Why cant there be another dimension to these things, why is it always the opposite or another extreme. Probably this conception has been with us from the start of the human race and is deeply rooted in our thinking process. When God created humans, he created man and woman. I really don't believe in this myth but still whoever wrote this up has limited himself to the possibility of two. When the first microprocessor was built it could store voltages in two states, either one or zero. This has limited our computing speed to what we have today. Think about the advances we would have made if only we were able to store data in more than two states. This is what the phenomenon of Quantum Computing is offering us. If only data could be saved and retrieved in more than one state, imagine the possibilities. I think we have reached an era where binary is no longer the fundamental seed of our thinking processes. It is time we come out of the binary shell and start exploring the possibilities beyond 2. Every situation and every problem has more than one solution and more than two ways out. Its no longer DO OR DIE, as said in the Godfather there is always a reasonable solution and that need not be DO OR DIE.

1 comment:

Anand MG said...

though ur tots are provoking,u miss a major point. Humans are the where we are now because we have a great ability to simplify the world around us. Just think of the great equations of mankind f = ma, e = mc2. all these helped mankind develop step by step. if we were to explain every thing with relative theory even for the smallest calculation, man wud just be calculating and not inventing anything.

The way u r asking y we went for binary instead of quantum is like asking y Vasco da gama circled the earth instead of going to moon.
Y is tat a toddler is taught 1,2,3? y not advanced stochastic calculus instead? u shud the education minister for our country!!!
ur explanation is too absurd. think abt it.