The potential for emerging technologies to deliver new jobs, public services which are fit for the future, and everyday improvements to all our lives is a defining opportunity.
We can either be proactive, and build on the foundations now which will see us realise those opportunities in full, or fall behind and spend the coming decades playing catch-up. We will not play catch up.
When it comes to quantum the UK has already been laying the foundations for more than a decade – launching a first of its kind quantum programme in 2014 which has already been backed by more than £1bn in public funding to support skills, research, and infrastructure.
Because of our early work to get ahead of the pack, we’re starting to see quantum’s potential bearing fruit.
Companies are using it to tackle financial fraud and specialist pieces of wearable med tech are already in circulation which give us new insights into the treatment of epilepsy....