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the university of chicago, this is big brains, a podcast about the pioneering research and pivotal break throughs that are reshape our world. On this episode, building a quadaminter net. I'm
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your host, paul rand it
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can be hard to imagine life before the internet. To
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night, the information super highway and one of its main thoroughfares an on line network called internet.
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Han tont out. Anyway, massive
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computer, aor the one that's becoming really big. Now, what do
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Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, turning on your home computer to read the day's newspaper. Well, it's not as far fetched as it may seem. But what if there were a new iner net,
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one that would make our current one look like a tool from the stone age? Well that's what the quanta miner net could be, unimaginably powerful computers communicating over unimaginably fast networks to tackle the world's most unfathomable problems. So how will it do that? What will make the quantum internet quantum?
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Right now, our entrinet works because our unit of information consists of zeros or ones. For quantum technologies and quantum computing, the quantum unit of information r the cubit isn't just zero or one. It's infinite combinations of zeros and one. The data represents itself in a fundamentally different way. E ste like going between black and white ind colorooh,
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other magic ingredient about a quantum internitis entanglement.
