IBM Q – III: SLIPS AND SQUEAKS

IBM Q SERIES Three Prose poems inspired by the Q System One – the first commercially-available quantum computer. A cryogenically cooled, 20-qubit system hanging in a sealed glass case. It represents the dawn of a new and borderline-incomprehensible computing age, rife with odd concepts such as superposition, speeds faster than light and temperatures approaching absolute […]

IBM Q – II: ERROR RACKING ROWS

IBM Q SERIES Three Prose poems inspired by the Q System One – the first commercially-available quantum computer. A cryogenically cooled, 20-qubit system hanging in a sealed glass case. It represents the dawn of a new and borderline-incomprehensible computing age, rife with odd concepts such as superposition, speeds faster than light and temperatures approaching absolute […]

IBM Q – I: CHANDELIER Q

IBM Q SERIES Three Prose poems inspired by the Q System One – the first commercially-available quantum computer. A cryogenically cooled, 20-qubit system hanging in a sealed glass case. It represents the dawn of a new and borderline-incomprehensible computing age, rife with odd concepts such as superposition, speeds faster than light and temperatures approaching absolute […]

NUCLEAR PITS

Nature was not much of interest until we came along. It was froth and mixing of things, no rhyme or reason, and only after the mixing did we say OK, let’s improve the place. I can’t stop watching nuclear tests because each one is so bright and happy and even knowing the burn exists means […]