{"id":169827,"date":"2023-08-17T01:22:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T06:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/how-will-quantum-computers-change-the-world"},"modified":"2023-08-17T01:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T06:22:21","slug":"how-will-quantum-computers-change-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/how-will-quantum-computers-change-the-world","title":{"rendered":"How Will Quantum Computers Change The World?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-will-quantum-computers-change-the-world2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/major-breakthrough-paves-the-way-for-powerful-quantum-computers-today-67441\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quantum computers<\/a> are the next step in computation. These devices can harness the peculiarities of quantum mechanics to dramatically boost the power of computers. Not even the most powerful supercomputer can compete with this approach. But to deliver on that incredible potential, the road ahead remains long.<\/p>\n<p>Still, in the last few years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/new-milestone-reached-by-google-quantum-computer-67670\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">big steps<\/a> have been taken, with simple quantum processors coming online. New breakthroughs have shown solutions to the major challenges in the discipline. The road is still long, but now we can see several opportunities along the way. For <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/iflscience-the-big-questions-how-does-a-quantum-computer-work-and-how-will-they-change-the-world-70120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Big Questions<\/a>, IFLScience\u2019s podcast, we spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.sussex.ac.uk\/p179227-winfried-hensinger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Professor Winfried Hensinger<\/a>, Professor of Quantum Technology at the University of Sussex and the Chief Scientific Officer for <a href=\"https:\/\/universalquantum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Universal Quantum<\/a>, about the impact these devices will have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum computers are the next step in computation. These devices can harness the peculiarities of quantum mechanics to dramatically boost the power of computers. Not even the most powerful supercomputer can compete with this approach. But to deliver on that incredible potential, the road ahead remains long. Still, in the last few years, big steps [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169827","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}