{"id":30306,"date":"2016-09-19T21:03:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T04:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/quantum-computing-will-make-your-pc-look-like-a-graphing-calculator"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:26:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:26:45","slug":"quantum-computing-will-make-your-pc-look-like-a-graphing-calculator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/quantum-computing-will-make-your-pc-look-like-a-graphing-calculator","title":{"rendered":"Quantum computing will make your PC look like a graphing calculator"},"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\/z1GCnycbMeA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Winfried Hensinger likes Star Trek. \u201cIt goes all the way back to primary school,\u201d said the director of the Sussex Centre for Quantum Technologies in England. \u201cI wanted to be science officer on the Enterprise, so I worked out in about grade five that I wanted to study physics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today, his day-to-day work on abstract notions of quantum mechanics would make even Spock\u2019s ears perk up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Quantum computing] has a huge appeal for young people,\u201d Hensinger told Digital Trends, \u201cbecause it\u2019s basically science fiction.\u201d When he started in the field, it was largely confined to theoretical study. Today, the most promising projects are within reach of producing a universal quantum computer \u2014 something that was as sci-fi as <em>Star Trek<\/em> just a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/features\/dt10-computing\/\">http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/features\/dt10-computing\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winfried Hensinger likes Star Trek. \u201cIt goes all the way back to primary school,\u201d said the director of the Sussex Centre for Quantum Technologies in England. \u201cI wanted to be science officer on the Enterprise, so I worked out in about grade five that I wanted to study physics.\u201d Today, his day-to-day work on abstract [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,32,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-education","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30306","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60342,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30306\/revisions\/60342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}