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My name's Bryian Winner.
I'm chief technical officer
of Athens Computers
and Multimedia Enterprises.
One of the pieces
of my job description
is being a network architect.
I've been in the IT field
for over 25 years.
For doing my job,
you need to have a background
in mathematics and science.
Believe it or not,
industrial arts as well.
Knowing how things are built
enables us to work with them.
The majority of IT people have
some formalized education,
but much is learned
in the field.
It almost works
like an apprenticeship.
You'll work
with other IT people
and see them develop networks,
but you'll continue education
on the side constantly
because with the technology
changing all the time,
you have to keep up
with the latest developments.
Though I haven't been
in a school in 20 years,
I still go to conferences.
At the same time,
I read current tech articles,
so I know what's coming
tomorrow.
I can't focus
on what used to happen.
That's out of my head.
This way I can stay focused
on today and tomorrow.
Our computing is based upon
a binary choice set--
zero, one, yes, no.
We've never been able to figure
out the third choice--maybe.
That's where you'll advance
to artificial intelligence.
With quantum computing, you can
actually store information
on a much smaller level
more accurately.
When you start to exploit
some of the better-known
sections of physics,
you can use certain things,
such as quantum entanglement
to be able to change data
over distance.
While my computer here,
I change a piece of data
using a quantum-level network,
I could change data
on the other side of the galaxy
at the same time.
Most of your good IT people
that do networking
have an eye on these things.
We're dealing with fiber optics,
lasers, virtualized systems,
building computers
in the computer itself
so that it exists on nothing
more than the chip level
that doesn't exist in reality.
Keep learning constantly.
If you don't know,
say you don't know and ask.
Learn anything
and everything,
whether that is
using a hammer
or saying hello
in another language.
Keep learning.
Know more and you can do more.
The more you can do,
the more valuable you become.
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