{"id":30735,"date":"2016-10-04T03:43:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T10:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/quantum-computing-what-businesses-need-to-know"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:11:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:11:46","slug":"quantum-computing-what-businesses-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/quantum-computing-what-businesses-need-to-know","title":{"rendered":"Quantum computing: What businesses need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-computing-what-businesses-need-to-know.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most people will be familiar with Moore\u2019s Law which states that the number of transistors it\u2019s possible to get on a microprocessor doubles every 18 months. If this holds true it means that some time in the 2020s we\u2019ll be measuring these circuits on an atomic scale.<\/p>\n<p>You might think that that\u2019s where everything comes to a juddering halt. But the next step from this is the creation of quantum computers which use the properties of atoms and molecules to perform processing and memory tasks.<\/p>\n<p>If this all sounds a bit sci-fi, it\u2019s because practical quantum computers are still some way in the future. However, scientists have already succeeded in building basic quantum computers that can perform certain calculations. And when practical quantum computing does arrive it has the potential to bring about a change as great as that delivered by the microchip.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itproportal.com\/features\/quantum-computing-what-businesses-need-to-know\/\">http:\/\/www.itproportal.com\/features\/quantum-computing-what-b...d-to-know\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people will be familiar with Moore\u2019s Law which states that the number of transistors it\u2019s possible to get on a microprocessor doubles every 18 months. If this holds true it means that some time in the 2020s we\u2019ll be measuring these circuits on an atomic scale. You might think that that\u2019s where everything comes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30735","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=30735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66092,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30735\/revisions\/66092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}