Quantum computing: What's all the hype about?
Make Me Smart
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šļø 6 November 2025
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Summary
Quantum computing is still in an experimental phase, but tech companies say it could eventually have an enormous impact on the global economy. How long is that going to take? On todayās show, science journalist Dan Garisto joins Kimberly to break down the basics of quantum computing and why it could take many years for the technology to move out of the lab and into the real world.
Hereās everything we talked about today:
- "This Yearās Nobel Physics Prize Showed Quantum Mechanics Is a Big DealāLiterally" from Scientific AmericanĀ Ā
- "The Next Big Quantum Computer Has Arrived" from The Wall Street JournalĀ
- "Google Measures āQuantum Echoesā on Willow Quantum Computer Chip" from Scientific AmericanĀ
- "Futuristic quantum computing stocks take speculators on roller-coaster ride" from Reuters
- "Hereās How Quantum Computing Could Change the World" from The Wall Street JournalĀ
Join us tomorrow for āEconomics on Tap.ā TheĀ YouTube livestreamĀ starts at 3:30 p.m. Pacific time, 6:30 p.m. Eastern.
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| 0:36.9 | Hello, everyone. I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where none of us is as smart as all of us. |
| 0:42.9 | Today, we're going to get smarter about quantum computing. Right now, quantum computing is still in the experimental phase, but a lot of tech companies say that it could transform industries. |
| 0:55.0 | And so a lot of money is being put towards developing quantum computers. |
| 0:59.5 | And investors have really started to pick up on the hype. |
| 1:03.1 | So we wanted to learn more about the basics of quantum computing, what the future of the technology |
| 1:08.0 | could look like, and even more. |
| 1:10.2 | So here to help us break it down is science journalist Dan Garisto. |
| 1:14.0 | Welcome to the show, Dan. |
| 1:15.5 | Thanks for having me, Kimberly. |
| 1:18.0 | So for a lot of folks, and particularly sci-fi fans like me, |
| 1:21.9 | you only kind of hear the word quantum in the sci-fi context. |
| 1:27.0 | What does it even mean? Well, it means a lot of different |
| 1:31.5 | things to different people, but the most important thing it means is something that's really small, |
| 1:38.2 | so at the level of atoms and particles. And when people use quantum as a descriptor, |
| 1:44.0 | they mean that something is behaving like those |
| 1:47.0 | atoms or particles. And that often means sort of counterintuitive ways, things that we |
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