How will the future unfold? What is the impact of technology on business & society? As technology reorders the world in which live, who will be the winners and who will be the losers? Join Azeem Azhar, curator of the Exponential View newsletter, in deep conversation with the world's leading thinkers and practitioners exploring these and other important questions. The views expressed on this podcast are those of its hosts, guests, and callers, and not those of Harvard Business Review.
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episode 15: Building A Quantum Computer with Light
“Quantum computing is to conventional computing what a warp drive is to a bicycle,” says Jeremy O’Brien, CEO of PsiQuantum. He joins Azeem Azhar to explore the exponential advantage quantum computing will bring to problems across science and industry, and how he’s using photonics to build the first productive quantum computer.
They also discuss:
- Why only quantum computers can help solve our most intractable problems.
- Why VCs are not rushing to fund this transformative technology.
- How existing silicon chip techniques can be adapted to build components for photonic quantum computing.
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Further resources:
- “Quantum computing and quantum supremacy, explained” (Wired, 2020)
- “Quantum for quants – Wall Street’s latest shiny new thing” (The Economist, 2020)
- “The future is quantum: solution to the world’s critical problems” (Financial Times, 2017)