What Does Technology Disruption Mean?
One of the most overused words in techland is “disruption.”
Let’s be clear: to be disruptive one moves a decimal point. A disruptive technology is 10 times faster, 1/10th the cost, runs on 1/10th the hardware – those are the MINIMUM characteristics.
The cloud is not disruptive – it’s just someone else’s data center.
Google and Facebook are no longer disruptive – they are at mammoths using conventional technology at an enormous scale.
Fractal quantum speed tech is disruptive.
Fractal runs 1,000 to a million times faster than any current technology.
The benefit of “faster” is not speed.
The benefit of something that is 1,000 times faster is delivering applications that cannot be envisioned with current technology.
For instance, it is not economically possible to take snapshots of voter rolls every month, every week or every day, cross search them against each other, and in seconds see what changed.
It is economically impossible to take the DMV database for a large state, cross search it against every state database – Medicaid, voter roll, property tax rolls – constantly.
Fractal enables that kind of cross search to happen at a cost 1/10th what a state now pays just to run its voter rolls – badly.
The value is immense.
For the first time, state executives can see data in live motion. Do citizens have one identity in the DMV database but a different one in another database?
Fractal analysis means this can be seen on a tablet or a phone – for the first time!
With current technology, using a relational database cluster costing millions of dollars, it would take days or weeks to get such an analysis.
The benefit of blinding speed is not speed itself, it is visibility to data characteristics never before possible.
Disruption means the government executives have the power of an entire data center in their hands, searching the world’s largest databases, at silicon speed – from a computer the size of a shoebox.
When governments can see every identity, across every database, they have new tools to eliminate fraud, waste and duplication not possible with current technology.