Quantum computing will impact society more than the Industrial Revolution
Ilyas Khan · a16z Podcast | Quantum Leap · Jan 2, 2019 · at 6:26
Ilyas Khan, founder and CEO of Cambridge Quantum Computing, evaluates the ultimate societal magnitude and transformative scope of quantum computing.
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“If the promise that Feynman held forth in the early eighties is even remotely true, then the impact of quantum computing on our lives as we sit around this table will be greater, for example, than that That our forefathers during the industrial revolution had during their lifetimes, and certainly, if you look at the transistor age, roughly from the time that let's say, in 1945 up to about 1980, before we got into the miniaturization race, we've all, I've certainly lived through that, and I can think of myself as being the recipient of amazing changes. My children live in a world which is very different from what I lived in. However, those changes Alibaba would be as if nothing compared to what will happen if Feynman's and other people's aspirations are to be even remotely true.”
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