Dr. Jeffrey Gladden explains how quantum computing's ability to test millions of solutions simultaneously could revolutionize medicine. His product Wingman uses digital twins of your body to run parallel simulations of treatments, identifying the optimal personalized therapy. He believes this approach could crack aging and let people maintain youthful function indefinitely.
You know that traditional computing is a 1 or a 0, and basically when it's analyzing something, it does so sequentially, meaning if it's gonna look for a solution, it tries this solution, then it tries that solution, then it tries this solution. With quantum computing, instead of a 1 or a 0, a heads or a tails if you're thinking about a coin, a quantum computer's like flipping a coin and seeing it spinning. It's both heads and tails simultaneously until it's measured. And because of the quantum computing and the fact that you can link those coins together, it can test millions, literally millions of solutions simultaneously. When you think about applying that to biology, if we have an individual's data and we have real-time data as well as historic data on what's their cardiovascular system, their genetics, and things like that, now we could actually build an incredibly accurate digital twin of you. And there will be a digital twin in the Wingman. With that incredibly accurate digital twin, we can basically test lots of different strategies and find out which is gonna be best for you. And that to me is super exciting. I think ultimately this is going to be how we crack the code on aging completely. This is how we're going to, you know, basically live young for a lifetime, develop a 300-year-old mind, maintain our cognitive function, be able to perform physically like we did when we were whatever age we want to be. And to me, oh my gosh, we're the luckiest generation of all time.
