My unsauced, purely speculative theory on what Project Looking Glass is.
A quantum computer that lets you see into the future. Follow along:
Say you wanted to crack a password that was 10 digits long. You can write a simple program that tries every possible combination of numbers from 0000000000 to 9999999999. But what if you applied this same principle to an image? An image is made up of pixels, and each pixel is a different color. Say we had an image that was 1920x1080. We can then try every possible combination of pixel colors within that image. With a classical computer, this could take months or years (i don’t fucking know, I’m not a computer scientist). But with a quantum computer, every possible image would be created instantly. You would see benign things like a burger on a plate. But you could also see historic things like assassinations, etc.
A video is just a sequence of images. Again, using quantum computers, we can extrapolate what we’ve done with a single image, and create many images to create a video. We can then see videos of the future.
But how do we know what’s likely to happen, and what’s not? I’m pulling this COMPLETELY out of my ass, but I’m speculating that they would use the theory of probability, to guess which event is most likely to happen. We’re talking about quantum computers, so I’m sure some algorithm could emerge which would be capable which future videos are likely, and which are unlikely.
If you think this is bullshit, I get it. But I feel this quantum-computer future-video theory is logical, if you consider how computers work.