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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

By improving quantum error correction, quantum computations are now faster than ever. But parallel universes? That’s utter nonsense here.

Analog could serve as “always-on” computing, while digital is turned on only when necessary.

Quantum computing brings significant opportunities — but equally significant cybersecurity risks.

Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey created a ground-breaking computer program that allowed them to express affection vicariously when so doing publicly, as gay men, was criminal.

Theoretical physics professor Michio Kaku outlines the evolution of computers from analog to digital and introduces quantum computers as the next frontier.

Our “embodied minds” suggest an eventual escape from mortality via computer is unlikely.

Here in the 21st century, quantum computing is quickly going from a dream to a reality. But what’s hype, and what’s actually true?

The brain-computer interface will be tested in a six-year trial in patients with quadriplegia.

Can quantum computers do things that standard, classical computers can’t? No. But if they can calculate faster, that’s quantum supremacy.

33 years ago, the theoretical biologist Robert Rosen offered an answer to the question “Is life computable?”

“Mainstream computing will start to shift from a race to develop increasingly powerful tools to a race to develop increasingly powerful abilities.”

The first of these devices is already on the market — the AI-powered Ray-Bans from Meta.

Artificial intelligence is much more than image generation and smart-sounding chatbots; it’s also a Nobel-worthy endeavor rooted in physics!

Nature may not allow us full access to the weirdness of quantum mechanics.

It could perform a speech recognition task with 78% accuracy.

“You’re not meant to understand what I just said, because I don’t understand what I just said…” Physicist Brian Cox on one of the most complex theories in space science.

It’s knowledgeable, confident, and behaves human-like in many ways. But it’s not magic that powers AI though; it’s just math and data.

Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria.

The evolution of quantum technology is far from over.

Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.

With no reliable way to discern the author of an artwork, we may eventually abandon the question of whether something was made by humans or not.

What if AI could tell us we have cancer before we show a single symptom? Steve Quake, head of science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, explains how AI can revolutionize science.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

We need more science fiction-inspired thinking in how we approach AI research, argues AI expert Gary Marcus.

While we’re busy wondering whether machines will ever become conscious, we rarely stop to ask: What happens to us?

Lasers, mirrors, and computational advances can all work together to push ground-based astronomy past the limits of our atmosphere.

Could AI develop true intelligence without sentience? Philosopher Jonathan Birch explores the boundaries of artificial and evolved minds.

Physicists have increasingly begun to view life as information-processing “states of matter” that require special consideration.

The tech world’s fixation on artificial intelligence has spawned beliefs and rituals that resemble religion — complete with digital deities, moral codes, and threats of damnation.