THE DEVELOPMENT OF QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY IS ACCELERATING – CYBER SECURITY MUST KEEP UP
text: ANTTI VASARA President & CEO VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd @ahavasara
The development of quantum technology may change the future of humanity and, at the same time, bring new, sustainable growth to Finland. Cyber security must be developed at the same pace with quantum technology.
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he major changes in different industrial sectors over the recent decades can be largely attributed to digitalisation and the improved power of computers. The development of quantum technology accelerates this change and increases the computing power to a higher level than we can currently imagine, opening totally new opportunities for, e.g.,modelling, complex simulations and machine learning. In the future, the enormous computing power of quantum computers can be harnessed for solving major global problems, accelerating the development of medicines and vaccines, or for effectively finding new
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ways to overcome climate change, for example. This future is closer and closer: quantum technologies are already breaking out of research laboratories to wider use. In the coming decades, the use will expand to different industrial sectors and open new application areas. Latest by the 2040s, quantum computers will already be used for doing so amazing things that it is impossible to forecast them in the present day. Exponential computing power can lead to an exponential leap in productivity, which would allow adapting the Earth’s resources to the well-being needs of the growing humanity.
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