**Abstract**

Digitalization of the imaging in radiology is a reality in several healthcare institutions worldwide. The challenges of filing, confidentiality, and manipulation have been brilliantly solved in radiology. However, digitalization of hematoxylin- and eosinstained routine histological slides has shown slow movement. Although the application for external quality assurance is a reality for a pathologist with most of the continuing medical education programs utilizing virtual microscopy, the abandonment of traditional glass slides for routine diagnostics is far from the perspectives of many departments of laboratory medicine and pathology. Digital pathology images are captured as images by scanning and whole slide imaging/virtual microscopy can be obtained by microscopy (robotic) on an entire histological (microscopic) glass slide. Since 1986, services using telepathology for the transfer of images of anatomic pathology between detached locations have benefited countless patients globally, including the University of Alberta. The purpose of specialist recertification or re-validation for the Royal College of Pathologists of Canada belonging to the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and College of American Pathologists is a milestone in virtual reality. Challenges, such as high bandwidth requirement, electronic platforms, the stability of the operating systems, have been targeted and are improving enormously. The encryption of digital images may be a requirement for the accreditation of laboratory services—quantum computing results in quantum-mechanical phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement. Different from binary digital electronic computers based on transistors where data are encoded into binary digits (bits) with two different states (0 and 1), quantum computing uses quantum bits (qubits), which can be in superpositions of states. The use of quantum computing protocols on encrypted data is crucial for the permanent implementation of virtual pathology in hospitals and universities. Quantum computing may well represent the technological singularity to create new classifications and taxonomic rules in medicine.

**Keywords:** Digital pathology, Medicine, Singularity, Quantum, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics

## **1. Introduction**

In the past two decades, we experienced some new inventions in technology with the development of quad-core processors (four independent units called cores able

to read and execute central processing unit instructions) and 5G networks. This environment in information technology (IT) allows us a more efficient, stable, and faster communication than ever. Currently, the 5G network is considered the milestone that will open the conversation to the next level. There is crescent popularity, widespread use and increasing dependency on wireless technologies in our societies, both Western and Eastern civilizations. This demand has produced an unimaginable industrial revolution that may show some spectra of Orwellian nature [1]. There is increasing public exposure to broader and higher frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum and data are transmitted as fast as never before [2]. The evolution from current 2G, 3G, and 4G to 5G wireless technologies is increasing worldwide. However, the promise of a convenient and comfortable lifestyle with a massive 5G interconnected telecommunications network has raised not only the expansion of broadband with shorter wavelength radiofrequency radiation but also highlighted the concern that health and safety issues may remain unknown [2]. Currently and in the future, the effects of radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation are and will be challenging if not impossible to identify epidemiologically. This challenge relies on the lack of an unexposed control group. Nevertheless, it is inconceivable to carry out some steps in our daily life without using the telecommunication network. In this chapter, some of the new exciting aspects of the evolution of digital pathology in diagnostics and teaching are discussed.
