Digital computers compute on a finite number of objects, zeros and one. While the quantum computer computes on simultaneously an infinite number of positions of electrons. What we're lacking are volunteers. That's really the problem here.
How will quantum computing change the world? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice learn about the development of quantum computing and what it means for humanity with theoretical physicist Michio Kaku.
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