#quantum boy

Well, that’s easy; New Gods are new and Old Gods are old. Old Gods are of the gods of the past while New Gods are the gods of the future.

But are they? Are they really?

In the TV series, we see three main New Gods: World, Media, and Technical Boy. We see them at various stages. With Media evolving into New Media, Technical Boy having several incarnations (Telephone Boy, Quantum Boy, etc), and World being the most recent to upgrade into a different Mr World and a Ms World.

But the Old Gods aren’t like that. They aren’t upgraded versions of the Old Gods. There are different versions but each of them coexist in different parts of the world because they are shaped for that part of the world.

The American versions of the Old Gods are all weaker than the other versions of themselves, especially in their native country, if not forgotten all together.

With the New Gods, it isn’t. As far as we know, the New Gods evolve or upgrade. They’re the most recent version of the Media, Globalization, and Technology. They are New, Improved Gods.

So, maybe, that’s the difference.

The New Gods are new because they never stay the same. They are probably older than any other god but because they are constantly upgrading, they’re seen as the newest gods. The newest pantheon.

Because technology, globalization, and the media weren’t as prevalent in the past as they are now (and even in the past 100-200 years), they weren’t necessarily powerful gods. They were weaker, but because of how things are now and how things have grown over the last 100+ years, they have become powerhouses that are dependent on one another. Which is another post all together.

Quantum state.

Bruce Langley posted on Instagram a picture of his last recording session for American Gods season 3. 

It was a Reddit guy that mentionned that having Quantum Boy cause the enormous hack on the United-States is perfectly logical. Just look at his name. “Quantum”. He seems to represent the quantum computers. And what comes with quantum computers? Worries, threats and fears about the security of older computers, the Internet and other technological systems. 

Here are some videos on the subject.

The first one, linked by the Reddit user in question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvTqbM5Dq4Q&t=69s 

A suggestion of mine. The beginning and end are the most interesting part, the middle is really a lot of technical explanations non-initiated to the mysteries of computering like me will just think of as complicated incantations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhHMJCUmq28&t=251s

And a last one I’m throwing in: