Time is Money. Weekly Takeaways from CEO David Mitlyng. Why timing from GPS has to go.

There is lots of hype and confusion around the Quantum Internet. At the simplest level it is a network of quantum computers.

“I Hate GPS” “The idea that we are all hooked to a satellite…that doesn’t work in certain circumstances, does not work indoors or in valleys

All networks, communications, and power grids require a common time standard.

As NVIDIA and Facebook noted in a blog post, better timing gives outsize performance improvement: “making the timekeeping 80x more precise

GPS, like Sutro Tower, was also built in the 1970s and provides a free* signal. And it is also obsolete.

China has taken a different tack. Like Russia, they have their own anti-satellite and a GPS alternative called BeiDou.

The need for accurate timing cuts across multiple sectors, but there seems to be a common thread: the trend towards distributed architecture