Turing II

Lex looked around the room as she spoke. Paying a good deal of attention to the man that sat directly across from her. The man spoke up once again "well seeing as your here, and understand we are all pretty busy why don't we get started?" Some of the others nodded in agreement.

"I appreciate your approval to start Mr. Valorie, I sense you are all very impatient and excited for what we will be discussing today. But please, I will have to ask your patience for a moment as we go through the formalities yes?" Lex offers politely and some other nod "so the first order of business is this, what can you all offer?"

Lex decided to just jump in, the man who decided to sit directly across from her to set himself up as the adversary hoping to take a position of power. Lex smiled at this internally, she wasn't going to let him dictate the pace and direction. He after all wasn't on his home court, but hers. She was the one to orchestrate the meeting, so of course ultimately she had the real control. But Valorie was hoping to cash in on her inexperience in these sorts of things.

Valorie interjected "you haven't even shown us anything, how can you ask us about what we can or are willing to give?" The man started to look like he had a bad taste in his mouth.

"Mr Valorie is correct" one of the people to his immediate left spoke up. Lex glanced between them and then back to Valorie "you've all seen how the communication devices work, so what are you hesitating on? Claiming that we haven't shown you anything? If that were the case, then why would you all have even bothered to come here?" Stated Lex.

"But I'm not a woman of only words," she nods at Amanda and Amanda heads to a door in the room opening it up. She carts out a sleek looking computer chassis with a keyboard and monitor display "Before you is, well we haven't come up with a name for this product line just yet. But it is a first generation commercial quantum computer. The core, what you would consider the processor in standard computers is powerful enough that even the best of supercomputers would lag behind this machine in pure computational power."

She pauses and looks at the people seated around the table and sighs slightly 'bunch of old fogeys, if this were a younger crowd, they'd be drooling over the computer just for this part alone. No appreciation' she continues on "unlike the modern computer which needs the motherboard, processor, ram, and storage device, our computer is able to eliminate some of those components, well not really eliminate them, but change them. They all function off of quantum technology and link in directly with the core. It's a bit rudimentary right now and because of our manufacturing capabilities and materials, it is slightly limited compared to its theoretical capabilities with the correct materials"

One of the other men sitting around the table speaks up at this point "when you say limited what exactly do you mean? Does it mean it's not functioning as well as it should be? If it's so inefficient, why then would you be marketing it if a regular computer can outperform it?"

Lex glances at him replying "I never made any claims to its overall performance with the materials it is constructed from yet, so your making some radical assumptions without having any information." She signs lightly "but your concerns when it comes to any other computer based product would not be unwarranted with what I just said. However we are not working with any other basic computer, but a first of its kind, one that functions off of quantum physics principals and therefore standard knowledge does not necessarily apply here. While it's true this computer cannot function currently at its peak theoretical capabilities, it is vastly superior to anything on the known market. I mean to say that it's current capabilities are on par with the communications device I invented not all that long ago. And that thing was just basically a less powerful and smaller device such as this one."

"The display also, now this was a very interesting discovery that was purely by accident." She motions for Amanda to power everything on. "Suffice it to say that I don't think any of you would appreciate the specs on the display" the screen turns on and the image captivates the room. The field of depth of the screen was interesting to say the least. In the minds of everyone present, they knew they should be looking at a flat screen, something all of them are used to seeing with the typical screens. And there was nothing spectacular about what was displayed on the screen itself.

It was just one of the many grand scenic areas of the planet. But what was spectacular was that you could see the full field of depth of the image, not like you would when looking at it on a flat surface, but as if you were there in person. The colours and such were just as vibrant as anyone would see them in person. It took photo realism to an entirely new level. This wasn't simply a three dimensional image displayed on a two dimensional screen. The concepts behind the workings of this screen were as if it was a full three dimensional image in three dimensional space. If not for Amanda touching the screen people might actually believe this to be the case. But instead it looked like her hand was just pressed to a window.

Lex gestures to Amanda again and the image switched to the same location but instead of daytime, it was night. A full moon shown in the sky and a multitude of stars. The image still maintained that three dimensional perspective, but the blackness of the night sky was darker than what one would even see at the site, the various points of light of the stars and the background lighting, all of it came together to create a breathtaking image. And the fact that it was all displayed on a two dimensional surface, well that was messing with their heads, as each of them would swear that they were looking out a window at the location.

"There's also one other thing I'd like to show you all with this quick demonstration. It's a benchmark test, but of one of the popular video games. And yes, our operating system is comparable with all other operating systems, or programs that require certain operating systems." She motions once more to Amanda and a popular first person shooter game is displayed and runs through a benchmark test.

None of the members seem all that intrigued with the game itself but more what is being displayed on the screen. Because not only did it display the computer graphics in uncanny detail, but it also maintained the same three dimensional image as the landscape images just did. But now with far more moving parts showing on the screen, the performance of the screen and computer powering it were unequivocally unmatched both in performance and quality. Aside from the obvious computer graphics on the screen, one would be forgiven for believing that guns might actually have been firing at them. "Amanda slow it down exponentially." Amanda nods and the game speed slows down to a point as if you were watching a slow motion camera. And there then came to everyone's attentions things that would not have been seen when playing the game on Ideen computers.

You could actually see the bullets, and flash effects of the firearms, and they all looked quite realistic, but not out of place with the rest of the images. "And before you ask, no, those bullet effects are not actually programmed into the game, but the computer is doing all the calculations and extrapolating and projecting what should be there. As if it actually were." Lex states. "This was one aspect that I was unaware would, or even could happen. But I'm absolutely certain that those gamers out there would love it." She smiles.

Amanda speeds the image back up, and it went without saying that the game should not have been capable of slowing down to that extent either, but they just did that and the image quality didn't have any tearing, the benchmark completed and gave back an error, as it could not render an appropriate metric. This was probably the only issue that it came down to, just a string of numbers and letters for the frame rate, and indicated that it used no line of the processing power of the machine. It was simply unreal, and once again, something the old guys in the room couldn't appreciate, but Lex looked at that information and practically drooled at that even when she was expecting it. 'Yes, definitely one of the perks of owning the company, I get these for free basically. Cant wait till I get some time to play games myself on this thing' she couldn't help but think. The computer showcased amazing capabilities and unprecedented speed of operating, even going so far as to take information of how things should be and implement it into the the program physics that wasn't originally there.

Now for the last bit of information as well, with the advent of quantum computing technology, our programmers have also managed to develop functional AI, it's non-sentient of course. But it is absolutely indistinguishable from an actual person. And was one of the reasons why the computer was capable of adding in those details to the game that weren't originally programmed in. And this was the final bomb she dropped on the meeting before sitting down with a smugish smile on her lips. The men in the room being left speechless