There were fundamental questions here that could have been asked hundreds of years ago. It's just that no one thought to ask them.
in a Quanta Magazine piece on computing's foundations
“Human mathematicians are forevermore dethroned as the main theorem-proving entities on planet earth.”
“In whatever years I have left, I don't expect that I'll ever again prove a theorem because I'm actually needed to prove it.”
“It's maybe the most fundamental thing that you can say about the evolution of the entire universe. And yet it's not something that anyone thought of until they were building steam engines.”
“I don’t know of any mundane way to explain it.”
“I thought it was a little bit crazy, but I thought it was the least crazy of all the possibilities.”
“Arora also explains why quantum computers could threaten today's encryption — and why hackers may already be collecting data to decrypt later.”