Forbes August 9, 2024
Nicola Sfondrini

Nicola Sfondrini – Partner Digital and Cloud Strategy at PWC.

Quantum computing has taken ideas from the hinterlands of theoretical physics and brought them into the real world. Where it was once a technology about which specialists pushed the techno-futurist limits of speculation, quantum is becoming our predicted future, with consequences for everything from cybersecurity to drug design.

As quantum computers multiply, they could complement—or possibly supersede—existing digital infrastructure devoted to contemporary security. The quantum horse is out of the gate and sprinting, and the technology’s ability to run certain calculations in far less time than current systems can achieve is going to have repercussions on digital infrastructure worldwide.

What in the world is quantum computing, then? Every classical computer...

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