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

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

means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. We're just around the

corner. For Bitcoin to Artificial Intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality and more.

Good morning, good afternoon or good evening depending where you are in the world.

This is Tracy Murda on behalf of Richard Jacobs here at Future Tech Podcast.

Today I have incredibly esteemed the guest.

Earl Campbell, the theoretical physicist at the University of Sheffield.

Thank you so much for joining me, Earl.

I really appreciate your time today.

Thank you, Tracy.

We'll be here.

So I'm going to pick your brain from a layman's perspective here on quantum computing.

There's obviously a lot to talk about.

So let's jump in and why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got started in quantum computing.

I've been working on quantum computing from an academic perspective for just over

ten years now.

So I'm someone that's always been deeply fascinated by physics and mathematics and

computing and all of these kinds of topics that kind of give us more understanding about how the world works at its most fundamental

level. But I also feel like I don't want to just be one of these academic sessions in

I retire or I want to kind of contribute something towards society and the

economy and so on and so forth in a very concrete way and around the time when I was finishing

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