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Quantum Computing and Blockchain in Business

By : Arunkumar Krishnakumar
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Quantum Computing and Blockchain in Business

By: Arunkumar Krishnakumar

Overview of this book

Are quantum computing and Blockchain on a collision course or will they be the most important trends of this decade to disrupt industries and life as we know it? Fintech veteran and venture capitalist Arunkumar Krishnakumar cuts through the hype to bring us a first-hand look into how quantum computing and Blockchain together are redefining industries, including fintech, healthcare, and research. Through a series of interviews with domain experts, he also explores these technologies’ potential to transform national and global governance and policies – from how elections are conducted and how smart cities can be designed and optimized for the environment, to what cyberwarfare enabled by quantum cryptography might look like. In doing so, he also highlights challenges that these technologies have to overcome to go mainstream. Quantum Computing and Blockchain in Business explores the potential changes that quantum computing and Blockchain might bring about in the real world. After expanding on the key concepts and techniques, such as applied cryptography, qubits, and digital annealing, that underpin quantum computing and Blockchain, the book dives into how major industries will be impacted by these technologies. Lastly, we consider how the two technologies may come together in a complimentary way.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
5
Interview with Dr. Dave Snelling, Fujitsu Fellow
7
Interview with Dr. B. Rajathilagam, Head of AI Research, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
9
Interview with Max Henderson, Senior Data Scientist, Rigetti and QxBranch
11
Interview with Sam McArdle, Quantum Computing Researcher at the University of Oxford
14
Interview with Dinesh Nagarajan, Partner, IBM
18
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19
Index

Conclusion

Every few years, we see new technology trends emerge. No major technology since the rise of the internet has managed to thrive without enriching the data economy. Be it AI, Big data, Cloud computing, Blockchain, the IoT, 5G, or quantum computing, they all interact with the data economy and contribute to it. Some of them have more use cases at the Application Layer, some of them at the Protocol Layer, and some of them at the Physical/infrastructure Layer. Irrespective of that, they have all been disruptive at scale.

The internet laid the foundations of these exciting few years of data innovation. Social media built on them. Once we had data created through social media, it was all about making the most of it using emerging technologies. Some of these technology paradigms had been around even before the advent of the internet and social media. But the availability of rich, contextual user data helped innovators refine their approach in using and further developing...