By Scott Shields - Contributing Writer Capitol Times Media The November 2026 elections seem to be the headlines; however, November 2028 looms large. The next U.S. presidential inauguration will arrive quickly. And here is where President Trumps biggest opportunity or failure will occur. Quantum computing threatens to break the cryptographic foundations securing 6.9 million BTC, including the 1.1 million coins attributed to Satoshi Nakamoto. Within this pressure cooker, an unexpected proposal...

By Scott Shields – Contributing Writer – Capitol Times Media - From Conversations and Material of Zhu Weisha. Learn more about Zhu Weisha here at Capitol Times Media's July Magazine Issue How AI Handles Certainty and Uncertainty 1. Many AI debates are talking about different things from the start Asking AI to write a well-defined program is not the same kind of problem as asking AI whether there is an AI bubble. Having an Agent complete a task under established rules is not the same kind of...

By Scott Shields and Team When Verification Meets Epistemology — A Profile INTRODUCTION: AN IMAGINARY NUMBER THAT'S VERY REAL One of Scott Shields' top technologists calls him "the square root of −1", also known as i, the imaginary unit in mathematics. At first glance, the comparison seems paradoxical. What is the square root of a negative number? You cannot multiply a number by itself to get a negative. By traditional arithmetic, it makes no sense. But if you take the leap of faith into the...