Think of every amazing future technology you’ve seen or read about in science fiction, or imagined yourself. Big innovations that change the world and cure disease or end war, and littler ones too, things that help us “think” a quick message to a friend without saying a word or share an experience from a distance. Quantum physics is enabling the creation of all of these futuristic technologies and some that didn’t even occur to most of us, making our sci-fi dreams part of our reality.
Scientists are now able to isolate and work with single atoms and photons, and this has opened up a world of possibility, ripe for use at grander scales. The race to miniaturize computer components has all but ended, because at tiny enough sizes, particles and solids exhibit Einstein’s “spooky” behaviors and act in strange ways. Quantum technologies accept these realities, and embrace the spooky, harnessing those behaviors for use and scaling them up. There are applications for these technologies in almost every industry existing today—and new industries born out of the tremendous power of this technology are also sure to come.
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