Facing The Threats Of a World We Have No Knowledge About Is a Test For Human Intelligence

The new book “Quantum Threat”, written by Jayshree Pandya PhD, Founder and CEO of Risk Group, appears in a period of time characterized by a high peak of cybersecurity issues, intensive global activity of attacks on vital infrastructure systems, and research achievements indicating a rising probability of quantum technologies getting extremely high potential to enhance both the constructive and the destructive power of the agencies operating in the digital space. The security condition of our world is being further aggravated by the lasting and clearly palpable trends of weaponization of Space, Geospace, Aquaspace, Cyberspace and Quantumspace, and the negative consequences of democratization of innovation and the democratization of destruction. The above processes are naturally following the logic of a Humanity functioning in a tribal mode, where every new discovery and every new invention first becomes a weapon, and after that, eventually, becomes a tool for better life, but their impact on the condition of global security and the degree of anthropogenic existential risks have become dangerously close to the redlines of self-destruction. That makes very valuable the ideas of the author for strategizing national security, shaping national cyber policy and for establishing a collective active trigger warning system.

With her vision, Jayshree Pandya PhD, Founder and CEO of Risk Group, has, however, intellectually reached out beyond the horizon of our everyday life to discover that the concept of quantum is much more than our new worldview that comes with their new opportunities and challenges; her daring thinking decisively invades the realm of the philosophy of existence and, implicitly, even religion, to provoke us with impulses related to the universal interconnectedness of our world and the practically unexplored capabilities of advanced quantum technologies to induce anthropogenic risks of humans destroying the very texture of existence without us having any knowledge whatsoever about the consequences of our blind interventions in the vastly unknown dimensions of quantumspace.