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A recent Westminster eForum event saw leaders come together to discuss the priorities for quantum technology progress, both in the UK and worldwide.
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The UK is a world leader in quantum technologies, according to Roger McKinlay, Challenge Director of Quantum Technologies at UK Research and Investment (UKRI). Comparing the quantum sector today with the Wright Brothers flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, he quotes the photographer who first showed the world an aeroplane in the sky:
It wasn t luck that made them fly. It was hard work and common sense.
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America gained 7 million new jobs – more than three times government experts’ projections.
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The unemployment rate reached 3.5 percent, the lowest in a half-century.
Achieved 40 months in a row with more job openings than job-hirings.
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Light years away
Over the past few years, quantum computing has been moving out of the pages of sci-fi and into the realms of actual science, although the language used to describe it still sounds positively Asimovian.
As the tech behemoth IBM explains: “Universal quantum computers leverage the quantum mechanical phenomena of superposition and entanglement to create states that scale exponentially with number of qubits, or quantum bits.”
What this essentially means – other than the fact that quantum computers work thanks to things like laser beams (China) or by operating in a “quantum state” at temperatures around absolute zero, colder than space (IBM, Google, and others) – is that the capability of these computers increases not linearly, but exponentially. As we have all learnt from the Covid crisis, exponential growth is a powerful thing. Once it gets going, playing catch-up is next to impossible.
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