a bit like a tiny laptop, which i thought was very cute. and out of all the concepts tcl showed me, i thought this was the most robust and practical. and finally, a trifold tablet essentially a ten inch tablet that folds down into a very chunky phone. it has two hinges one folds forwards and one folds backwards and you can bend it into a lot of unusual shapes, although i m not entirely sure why you would want to. n0w, none of these are ready to go on sale and the company doesn t even know how much they would cost, but it does give us an idea of what some phones might look like in the future. if computers are, in the future, going to help us design vaccines to take on threats like covid i9, well, those computers are probably going to need to be very different. and they re also going to look very different. this is a quantum computer. in this case, one of google s.
using a classical computer, or that is too time intensive to be able to achieve that. both ibm and google believe that we are on the cusp of something big with quantum computing. ibm talks about the 2020s being ‘the quantum decade . so maybe for the next pandemic, we will have bigger weapons in our arsenal. the mind bending world of the quantum computer! now, we often talk about autonomous cars on this programme but have you ever heard of an autonomous wheelchair? the concept has actually been around for a few years now but issues around reliability have meant the idea has never really made any progress. but one japanese company says it has a solution, and paul carter s been to new york s jfk airport to sit in on a very special live trial. it s safe to say that airports and disabled people haven t always been the best of friends. if you have mobility needs, most airports and airlines require
it was a very specific example. i think that there is a lot of work to be done to be able to roll that out and show a little bit more applicability. so, i actually like to think of it as quantum advantage. quantum advantage is kind of that point in time where you are doing a calculation on a quantum computer that you can t do on a classical computer. so we were discussing chemistry for example, it would be when we are able to achieve a higher level of accuracy for a molecule that we cannot do today using a classical computer or that is too time intensive or labour intensive to able to achieve that. both ibm and google believe that we are on the cusp of something big with quantum computing. ibm talks about the 2020s being the quantum decade. so maybe for the next pandemic, we will have bigger weapons in our arsenal. the mind bending world of the quantum computer. now, we often talk about autonomous
using a classical computer or that is too twime intensive to be able to achieve that. both ibm and google believe that we are on the cusp of something big with quantum computing. ibm talks about the 2020s being the quantum decade. so maybe for the next pandemic, we will have bigger weapons in our arsenal. the mind bending world of the quantum computer. now, we often talk about autonomous cars on this programme. but have you ever heard of an autonomous wheelchair? the concept has actually been around for a few years now but issues around reliability and has meant the idea has never really made any progress. but one japanese company says it has a solution. and paul carter s been to new york sjfk airport to sit in on a very special live trial. it is safe to say that airports and disabled people haven t always been the best of friends. if you have mobility needs,
essentially a ten inch tablet that folds down into a very chunky phone. it has two hinges, one fold forwards and one fold backwards. and you can bend it into a lot of unusual shapes, although i m not entirely sure why you would want to. none of these are ready to go on sale and the company doesn t even know how much they would cost but it does give us an idea of what some phones might look like in the future. if computers are in the future going to help us design vaccines to take on threats like covid 19, well, those computers are probably going to need to be very different. and they re also going to look very different. this is a quantum computer. in this case, one of google s. and while it is still early days, one of the things people expect quantum processors will eventually be very good at is solving hugely