Is quantum technology the future of the 21st century? On the occasion of the 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, this is the key question to be explored today in a panel discussion with the Nobel Laureates Serge Haroche, Gerardus 't Hooft, William Phillips and David Wineland. In the following interview, Professor Rainer Blatt, internationally renowned quantum physicist, recipient of numerous honours, Council Member and Scientific Co-Chairman of the 66th Lindau Meeting, talks about what we can expect from the "second quantum revolution".


Blatt has no doubt: quantum technologies are driving forward a technological revolution , the future impact of which is still unclear. Nothing stands in the way of these technologies becoming the engine of innovations in science, economics and society in the 21st century .


Ultimately, everyone will benefit. But like all developments, only those countries and regions will really derive a benefit - including profit in the commercial sense - that play a role in the development and refinement of these technologies early on . We will need cutting-edge research for some decades to come, and this entails a degree of financial, institutional and above all personnel commitment in order to tap the potential of quantum technologies.

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.....a Decade Roll; Hmmm....Decacorn in the making perhaps

QMC: Quantum Dots your way Via Mass Production

....I'd be ok w/that