Quantum Technologies: Digital Transformation, Social Impact, and Cross-sector Disruption

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Author
Da Silva, Marcelo Madeira
Date issued
Mar 2019
Subject
Blockchain;
Digital Transformation;
Artificial Intelligence;
Educational Technology;
Medical Technology
JEL code
L96 - Telecommunications;
O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences • Diffusion Processes;
L86 - Information and Internet Services • Computer Software
Category
Learning Materials
A new generation of quantum technologies will cut across most of the emerging technologies we know today, empowering many of them and threatening the security of others. They will also disrupt technology currently used in medicine, biology, genetics, education, economy and finance, energy, sustainable agriculture, transportation, and meteorology, among others, achieving a high social impact as well. Because of this, many major global powers and the most prominent technology firms have already heavily invested in understanding, developing, and implementing these new technologies.