{"id":117414,"date":"2020-12-20T01:02:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T09:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/wall-streets-latest-shiny-new-thing-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2020-12-20T01:02:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T09:02:16","slug":"wall-streets-latest-shiny-new-thing-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/wall-streets-latest-shiny-new-thing-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street\u2019s latest shiny new thing: quantum computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wall-streets-latest-shiny-new-thing-quantum-computing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>THE FINANCE industry has had a long and profitable relationship with computing. It was an early adopter of everything from mainframe computers to artificial intelligence (see timeline). For most of the past decade more trades have been done at high frequency by complex algorithms than by humans. Now big banks have their eyes on quantum computing, another cutting-edge technology.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A fundamentally new kind of computing will shake up finance\u2014the question is when.<\/p>\n<p><strong itemProp=\"articleSection\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/finance-and-economics\/\">Finance &amp; economics<\/a><\/strong><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/printedition\/2020-12-19\" data-test-id=\"Article Datetime\"> Dec 19th 2020 edition<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE FINANCE industry has had a long and profitable relationship with computing. It was an early adopter of everything from mainframe computers to artificial intelligence (see timeline). For most of the past decade more trades have been done at high frequency by complex algorithms than by humans. Now big banks have their eyes on quantum [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,45,41,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-finance","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}