{"id":118909,"date":"2021-01-26T20:25:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T04:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/how-quantum-computers-could-hack-our-brains-with-fake-memories-like-total-recall"},"modified":"2021-01-26T20:25:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T04:25:28","slug":"how-quantum-computers-could-hack-our-brains-with-fake-memories-like-total-recall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/how-quantum-computers-could-hack-our-brains-with-fake-memories-like-total-recall","title":{"rendered":"How quantum computers could hack our brains with fake memories like Total Recall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RtoJBv-YHUo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, maybe they would be good memories. \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Quantum computers, according to experts, will one day be capable of performing incredible calculations and nearly unfathomable feats of logic. In the near future, we know they\u2019ll help us discover new drugs to fight disease and new materials to build with. But the far future potential for these enigmatic machines is as vast as the universe itself.<\/p>\n<p>The realm of classic science fiction is littered with ideas that today\u2019s experts believe lie within the realm of reality \u2013 if not today\u2019s reality, then perhaps tomorrow\u2019s quantum computer-laden one. One of those ideas comes straight out of a Paul Verhoeven film from over thirty years ago: <em>Total Recall<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In fairness, the film (we\u2019re talking about the 1990 one starring the former governor of California not the 2012 remake) was based on a short story by Phillip K Dick. But for the purposes of this article we\u2019ll be discussing the movie\u2019s depiction of \u201cRekall,\u201d a mysterious company portrayed in the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, maybe they would be good memories. \ud83d\ude03 Quantum computers, according to experts, will one day be capable of performing incredible calculations and nearly unfathomable feats of logic. In the near future, we know they\u2019ll help us discover new drugs to fight disease and new materials to build with. But the far future potential for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,47,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-neuroscience","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118909","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}