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Somewhere in a data center right now, a chip colder than deep space is holding information in a state so delicate that a single stray photon could wreck it. Meanwhile, governments are rewriting the encryption that protects every bank login on Earth, because of a machine nobody has built yet. Quantum technology is strange that way: part of it has quietly run your phone for decades, and part of it is a promise that may or may not arrive.

The course starts with how the transistor, the laser and the GPS clock grew out of quantum rules, then turns to what a qubit really is and why the popular idea that quantum computers try every answer at once is wrong. You will be able to tell a genuine milestone from a press release, explain why your messages might be recorded today to be read in 2040, and weigh the money, power and security questions behind the global race to build these machines.

Levels

  1. 1 1. The Quantum Revolution You Already Own 5-question quiz
  2. 2 2. Qubits: How Quantum Information Works 5-question quiz
  3. 3 3. What Quantum Computers Can and Cannot Do 5-question quiz
  4. 4 4. Building the Machines: Hardware and Error Correction 5-question quiz
  5. 5 5. Codes, Keys and the Quantum Threat 5-question quiz
  6. 6 6. Quantum Sensing: Measuring the World More Finely 5-question quiz
  7. 7 7. The Quantum Race: Governments, Money and Power 5-question quiz
  8. 8 8. Ethics, Security and Public Judgment 5-question quiz

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