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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.

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.

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

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

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.

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

The evolution of quantum technology is far from over.

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.

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.

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

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

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

If you guessed “staying up all night to play video games,” you’d be right.

The science fiction dream of a traversable wormhole is no closer to reality, despite a quantum computer’s suggestive simulation.

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

Frontier, the ORNL supercomputer, used machine learning to perform 9.95 quintillion calculations per second.

“How long someone thinks about [a] problem is a really good proxy of how humans behave.”