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🗓️ 7 September 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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It's a rapidly emerging technology that has the potential to solve problems at an incredible pace.
At the moment its uses are limited but that hasn’t stopped investment rolling into the sector and businesses from making money as the technology develops around the world.
Gareth Mitchell speaks to three different quantum businesses to discuss its viability and its risk.
Presenter: Gareth Mitchell Producer: Hannah Mullane
(Image: Quantum entanglement. Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:23.0 | podcast. Hello and welcome to Business Daily. I'm Gareth Mitchell, bringing you a week of |
| 0:31.0 | programs about science and business. Previously, we came face-to-face with a computer rather different |
| 0:37.2 | from the one that you may have on your desktop, |
| 0:39.7 | as we delved into quantum computing. |
| 0:42.4 | It's a technology that sits at the frontiers of science. |
| 0:45.7 | There's huge promise for its potential, but also some concerns about its real-world viability. |
| 0:52.0 | So what does the future look like for quantum computers and the |
| 0:55.6 | two billion existing conventional computers around the world? Today, in our second episode about |
| 1:01.9 | quantum computing, we'll try to find out. I realize that it's, you know, a whole new way |
| 1:08.9 | of looking at the world, reality. |
| 1:11.8 | Right now it's really about delivering new kind of computational power for humankind. |
| 1:18.7 | Quantum computers process data differently to existing conventional, classical computers. |
| 1:24.8 | That means different applications. |
| 1:26.6 | For instance, in science, understanding |
| 1:28.4 | minute biological systems or what happens in the heart of atoms. Elsewhere, the machines have |
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