Google, Microsoft, IBM. The biggest tech companies in the world are all quietly preparing for a single threat. One that could crumble the entire digital infrastructure we’ve built for the past 70 years.
The Q-day, as experts call it, is the day when quantum computers are finally unleashed and they break every form of encryption we’ve ever developed. The day when digital computing comes to an abrupt end. Is this threat even real? And if it is, is there anything we can do to stop it?
00:00 Quantum Computing – End Of The Digital Age
00:54 The Date Nobody’s Talking About
08:02 What is Encryption, Actually?
10:41 Shor’s Algorithm and the Break
12:55 Q-Day
19:31 The Systems Built on a Broken Lock
22:21 Forking the Internet
25:41 What Quantum Unlocks, and Who Unlocks It
29:06 Medicine and the Molecular Frontier
30:33 The Energy and Materials Frontier
32:09 Optimization at Civilizational Scale
33:25 The Biggest Hurdle in Quantum Computing
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