{"id":132274,"date":"2021-12-12T11:23:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T19:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/towards-quantum-2-0-technology-where-the-best-opportunities-for-business-lie"},"modified":"2021-12-12T11:23:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T19:23:01","slug":"towards-quantum-2-0-technology-where-the-best-opportunities-for-business-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/towards-quantum-2-0-technology-where-the-best-opportunities-for-business-lie","title":{"rendered":"Towards quantum 2.0 technology: where the best opportunities for business lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/towards-quantum-2-0-technology-where-the-best-opportunities-for-business-lie2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>James McKenzie<\/b> is excited about the prospects of firms that are developing technology based on seemingly esoteric fundamental quantum phenomena.<\/p>\n<p>Physicists have long boasted of their success in what\u2019s known as \u201cquantum 1.0\u201d technology \u2013 semiconductor junctions, transistors, lasers and so on. Thanks to their efforts over the last 75 years, we have smart phones, computers, laptops and other quantum-enabled devices that have transformed our lives. But the future will increasingly depend on \u201cquantum 2.0\u201d technology, which taps into phenomena like superposition and entanglement to permit everything from quantum computing and cryptography to quantum sensing, timing and imaging.<\/p>\n<p>The incredible possibilities of quantum 2.0 were brought home to me when I attended the <a href=\"https:\/\/physicsworld.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=98327&action=edit\">UK\u2019s National Quantum Technologies Showcase<\/a> in central London last month. The event featured more than 60 exhibitors and I was amazed how far things have progressed. In fact, it coincided with two positive developments. One was an announcement by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/news\/50-million-in-funding-for-uk-quantum-industrial-projects\/\">a further \u00a350m to support quantum industrial projects<\/a>. The other was the UK and US signing a joint <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/new-joint-statement-between-uk-and-us-to-strengthen-quantum-collaboration\">\u201cstatement of intent\u201d<\/a> to boost collaboration on quantum science and technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James McKenzie is excited about the prospects of firms that are developing technology based on seemingly esoteric fundamental quantum phenomena. Physicists have long boasted of their success in what\u2019s known as \u201cquantum 1.0\u201d technology \u2013 semiconductor junctions, transistors, lasers and so on. Thanks to their efforts over the last 75 years, we have smart phones, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1523,1625,1512,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computing","category-encryption","category-mobile-phones","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132274","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\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}