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Quantum Computing and the end of the Internet as we know it

Aperture | May 19, 2026



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Google, Microsoft, IBM. The biggest tech companies in the world are all quietly preparing for a single threat. One that could crumble the entire digital infrastructure we’ve built for the past 70 years.

The Q-day, as experts call it, is the day when quantum computers are finally unleashed and they break every form of encryption we’ve ever developed. The day when digital computing comes to an abrupt end. Is this threat even real? And if it is, is there anything we can do to stop it?

00:00 Quantum Computing – End Of The Digital Age
00:54 The Date Nobody’s Talking About
08:02 What is Encryption, Actually?
10:41 Shor’s Algorithm and the Break
12:55 Q-Day
19:31 The Systems Built on a Broken Lock
22:21 Forking the Internet
25:41 What Quantum Unlocks, and Who Unlocks It
29:06 Medicine and the Molecular Frontier
30:33 The Energy and Materials Frontier
32:09 Optimization at Civilizational Scale
33:25 The Biggest Hurdle in Quantum Computing

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This post currently has 32 comments.

  1. @plundbohm

    May 19, 2026 at 7:02 am

    The ultimate irony of the quantum age is that the final line of defense against the most complex, multi-billion-dollar computing technology ever created is incredibly low-tech: it is the quiet, deliberate human choice to pause, doubt our own biases, and think critically before we react. A new cyber frontier is Cognitive Security, but how to protect what is presently sparse in the collective? Implementing asymmetric, structural, and behavioral defences for our most vulnerable asset — the human mind. Will it happen, or do we swipe left?

  2. @jvdome

    May 19, 2026 at 7:02 am

    That thing about buying computing power instead of buying computer hardware makes sense now. Games and other emerging applications might require so much processing power that a personal machine simply can’t handle them, so we’ll stream the results to our screens while the actual computing happens on one of those supercomputers. Owning a personal PC might eventually become an outdated, tinfoil-hat kind of thing.

  3. @kiasoe

    May 19, 2026 at 7:02 am

    In terms of the bigger picture, it really doesn't matter whatever new technology is going to emerge as long as we embrace it as a collective species instead of fragmented tribes. If we were united against entropy as a species in the first place we would've never needed encryption or cryptography or any secrets at all to keep from our own peers, our own kind. The innovation that is happening in the far east right now is no less important than the foundation that has already been built in the west. The biggest problem, therefore, is not tech but our own mindset – because at the end of the day the irrefutable truth is that there's only one race which is human race – and there's only one Earth which is this world.

  4. @ArthurVaganyan

    May 19, 2026 at 7:02 am

    Yes 72 got me listening to in the morning I was angry even but Gods told me don’t except this message it is iluzion Highs so this is not Good For people but Good for some needs Different approach so this is your problems to serve
    Long to explain brings good and bad so needs balance other wise more problems
    That is it enough for today I am tired
    To much Energy invested by My Gods in me
    Shyxaz Gods Free Energy

  5. @patrikkiss8371

    May 19, 2026 at 7:02 am

    Its bogus, 0 chance we have Energy required to run Fully operational quantum computer that will be tapping to all its possible itterations across all timelines and Universes.

  6. @iron1204

    May 19, 2026 at 7:02 am

    NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASTY ad video, I should have trusted my feeling when I regarded your face. Fishy!

    Emotional manipulation for your cheap ad-scam. Blocked from now on.

  7. @dailyholiday84036

    May 19, 2026 at 7:02 am

    That's how we erase history. Technologies break down faster etc. Just as our ancestors did. Technology will corrupt and destroy faster than any human would and could. Poverty is first step for Technology for most that loose jobs. Problem is, humans created it.

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