Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Quantum computing is an emerging kind of number crunching

that exploits the rules of physics

to solve some kinds of extremely tricky problems.

And, like many computing advances before it, the finance sector is already looking to profit from it.

And for centuries, the ruling ideology in Korea was Confucianism, a philosophy imported from China.

It's long since faded from officialdom, but its influence is blamed for both the good and the bad in South Korean society today.

First up, though.

Georgia, the whole nation is looking to you.

The power is literally in your hands.

That power in the hands of Georgia voters who went to the polls yesterday will in large part determine how President-elect Joe Biden will be able to govern.

Unlike any time in my career, one state, one state can chart the course not just for the next

four years, but for the next generation.

Both of the state's Senate seats were up for grabs, after tight results in November triggered

a runoff. And that, in turn, triggered a fervent and wildly expensive pair of campaigns,

pitting incumbent Republicans, David Perdue, and Kelly Leffler, against Democrats,

John Ossoff and Rafael Warnock.

Votes are still being counted, but one contest has been decided.

Mr. Warnock will become the state's first black senator.

We prove that with hope, hard work, and the people by our side, anything is possible.

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