Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

Future Technologies is to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast.

Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.

Or just around the corner, for Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,

3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

Hello everyone and welcome to feature tech

podcast. I'm your host Juliet Lamar and we have joining us today Adam

Colton he is the lead business strategist at the Quantum Resistance Ledger.

Welcome Adam. Thank you for having me. So, Adam, why do you go ahead and give us a little insight into a QRL?

Right, so, um, QRL or the quantum resistant ledger sort of does what it says on the tin. We are developing a

blockchain platform that is resistant to both traditional and quantum computing attacks.

Block chain technology is obviously a very new and novel technology and we want to make sure that it is secure

looking forward and not just in the present.

So I guess for people who maybe need a little more insight why is something like this needed you know how did this how this how this come about?

Well to sort of start broad and then work my way more specifically, you know,

encryption underlies all technology networks,

whether it's something like a social media network,

your email, literally anything that the network is guarded by some type of

encryption to ensure that the data that's being transmitted between users is

actually the data they want to transfer and isn't just widely available to anybody with nefarious intent.

You can go back, you know, all the way to the Renaissance tracing the sort of back and forth

cat and mouse game of code makers and code

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