{"id":33663,"date":"2017-01-20T22:44:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T06:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/bristol-professor-reveals-quantum-power-behind-new-industrial-revolution-to-world-leaders-at-davos"},"modified":"2017-04-25T19:52:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T02:52:55","slug":"bristol-professor-reveals-quantum-power-behind-new-industrial-revolution-to-world-leaders-at-davos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/bristol-professor-reveals-quantum-power-behind-new-industrial-revolution-to-world-leaders-at-davos","title":{"rendered":"Bristol professor reveals quantum power behind new industrial revolution to world leaders at Davos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/images\/localworld\/ugc-images\/276268\/Article\/images\/30073468\/15810351-large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the world\u2019s political and business leaders gathered at Davos, it fell to a professor from the University of Bristol to reveal to them the full implications of a \u2018fourth industrial revolution\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Jeremy O\u2019Brien, director of the Centre for Quantum Photonics at the University of Bristol, addressed some of the most powerful people in the world yesterday at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland \u2013 to tell them just how rapidly quantum computers could change the world.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the European Research Council (ERC) Ideas Lab delegation, Professor O\u2019Brien has been actively involved with the WEF over the past few years and recently took on the role of co-chair of the Global Future Council on Computing. Last year he presented a talk on working towards a quantum computer discussing the future of computing and how new fields of computer sciences are paving the way for the next digital revolution.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/bristol-professor-reveals-quantum-power-behind-new-industrial-revolution-to-world-leaders-at-davos\/story-30073468-detail\/story.html#zVhwX05DwbbvSY87.01\">http:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/bristol-professor-reveals-quant...bbvSY87.01<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world\u2019s political and business leaders gathered at Davos, it fell to a professor from the University of Bristol to reveal to them the full implications of a \u2018fourth industrial revolution\u2019. Professor Jeremy O\u2019Brien, director of the Centre for Quantum Photonics at the University of Bristol, addressed some of the most powerful people in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33663","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=33663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37603,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33663\/revisions\/37603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}