Part 3
On Peter’s advice, I then studied the U.S. patent, all 157 pages of it – a considerable feat for a technophobe! The more technical members of our team scour through this massive work in detail, break it down into sections and get tested on them. I haven’t attempted any such marathon, but still I feel like I’ve gained a good working knowledge of the basics that make ExoTech the most advanced computing system on the planet.
So, in a very non-technical way, let me give you an idea of how ExoTech works. First, get the idea that for over seventy years scores of very bright techies have tried to figure out how to take a quantum leap with computing…to get out of the box, so to speak. They’ve worked hard. But the end result is that instead of getting out of the box, they’ve painted themselves into a corner. No matter how many millions get thrown into how many think-tanks, computing is spinning its wheels. So, how did Peter manage to uncover the step-by-step process by which he built something entirely new?
That’s a provocative question … and an even more provocative claim that happens to be true. Peter’s secret was that he took the concept back to the very beginning, when the first primitive computers which involved massive equipment and endless man-hours of hard work started to evolve current technology.
He examined the first principles of computing and made the simple but astonishing discovery that early developers had started off on – not necessarily the wrong foot – but let’s say a different foot than the one that’s needed for the computing of today. The idea was to decode massive amounts of data in a time of war under great stress and emergency. Things got thrown together and they just had to work. And they did work for the time … and were sufficiently workable to continue. However, an imperfect system meant for another purpose built at another time can hit a ceiling. For example, direct current ruled the day until Tesla proved it could be trumped by alternating current.
It’s a fundamental truth that if a lie enters into an equation, continuing to make the equation work is sometimes impossible. Things become increasingly complex as the lie gets papered over. Like direct current, the use of state-of-the-art computing principles can only go so far. Existing computing systems are simply becoming too complex to work efficiently. Programming data is monstrously convoluted and even simple changes involve many man-hours of work. Computers are collecting more excess baggage all the time. That’s the basic problem. It’s all in the construction.
So, Peter decided not to build a better computer, but to build a better way to construct one.
An ExoTech Ltd shareholder, Chris is currently authoring two of the four books to be published the day ExoBrain launches and has helped to create ExoBrain’s introductory video to the Confidential Technical Briefing. Chris has spent his working life in the film and television industry, starting with BBC Television in London, then ATV in Birmingham becoming, at the time, the youngest Studio Manager in Britain.
Later, in South Africa, he wrote and directed film and TV commercials, having four South African entries at the Cannes Advertising Festival. After a number of years of writing and directing or producing documentaries (eight international awards) and corporate videos, he concentrated on writing feature film screenplays (five screened) and television series (seven screened). He has a novel, ”Pursuit of Treachery,” with a literary agent and is currently obtaining finance for an action adventure feature film he has written and is co-producing. He is a published poet and has given many readings.