During the Trump administration the US government created a branch called "National Quantum Initiative" that aims to increase security and, in part, to protect America's internet/data infrastructure from Quantum computer hacking and to study Quantum physics.
https://www.quantum.gov/
https://www.quantum.gov/about/
"Quantum Information Science (QIS) emerges from a deeper consideration of how quantum physics (our description of the world at the microscopic level) has implications for information science (how real systems like computers process information). Quantum information technology takes advantage of these fundamentally quantum properties of matter to design new types of computers, sensors, and networks which enable new speed, precision, or functionality. Building on key QIS scientific discoveries since the 1980s, pioneering experiments starting in the 1990’s, quantum engineering from the 2000s, and commercial activity today, the world is on the cusp of a second quantum revolution. The prospects for innovation fueled by QIS, with implications for our economic prosperity and national security, motivate an all-of-government and all-of-nation approach to coordinating QIS activities in the United States."
It's great to see the US government start to accept this.
Let's see if they utilize it to prevent any serious issues in the future while paving the way for great discoveries.
(I already posted this on /g/ but I thought that someone might be interested in it here who may want to see it also)
https://www.quantum.gov/
https://www.quantum.gov/about/
"Quantum Information Science (QIS) emerges from a deeper consideration of how quantum physics (our description of the world at the microscopic level) has implications for information science (how real systems like computers process information). Quantum information technology takes advantage of these fundamentally quantum properties of matter to design new types of computers, sensors, and networks which enable new speed, precision, or functionality. Building on key QIS scientific discoveries since the 1980s, pioneering experiments starting in the 1990’s, quantum engineering from the 2000s, and commercial activity today, the world is on the cusp of a second quantum revolution. The prospects for innovation fueled by QIS, with implications for our economic prosperity and national security, motivate an all-of-government and all-of-nation approach to coordinating QIS activities in the United States."
It's great to see the US government start to accept this.
Let's see if they utilize it to prevent any serious issues in the future while paving the way for great discoveries.
(I already posted this on /g/ but I thought that someone might be interested in it here who may want to see it also)
