🔮 Quantum; cancer-busting food; retraining workers; cutting carbon; smart glass, random numbers, dating++ #226

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Azeem Azhar’s Weekly Wondermissive: Future, Tech & Society

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Dept of the near future

🌀 Quantum computing is expected to add productivity gains of over $450 billion annually in the coming decades, says BCG, with early applications in portfolio management, drug discovery and fluid dynamics. These estimates seem way too low, clocking in at only 0.5% of global GDP. If full-scale quantum computing arrives in twenty years, it seems clear that all major sectors, including energy, pharma, …