{"id":145549,"date":"2022-09-03T17:23:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T22:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/oxford-physicist-unloads-on-quantum-computing-industry-says-its-basically-a-scam"},"modified":"2022-09-03T17:23:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T22:23:05","slug":"oxford-physicist-unloads-on-quantum-computing-industry-says-its-basically-a-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/oxford-physicist-unloads-on-quantum-computing-industry-says-its-basically-a-scam","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Physicist Unloads on Quantum Computing Industry, Says It\u2019s Basically a Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/oxford-physicist-unloads-on-quantum-computing-industry-says-its-basically-a-scam2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oxford quantum physicist Nikita Gourianov tore into the quantum computing industry this week, comparing the \u201cfanfare\u201d around the tech to a financial bubble in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/6d2e34ab-f9fd-4041-8a96-91802bab7765\" class=\"\">searing commentary piece<\/a> for the <em>Financial Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, he wrote, it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/quantum-computers-ridiculous-hype\" class=\"\">far more hype than substance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a scathing, but also perhaps insightful, analysis of a burgeoning field that, at the very least, still has a lot to prove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxford quantum physicist Nikita Gourianov tore into the quantum computing industry this week, comparing the \u201cfanfare\u201d around the tech to a financial bubble in a searing commentary piece for the Financial Times. In other words, he wrote, it\u2019s far more hype than substance. It\u2019s a scathing, but also perhaps insightful, analysis of a burgeoning field [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,45,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-finance","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145549","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}