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Season 5 Episode 26 | 11m 35s
The world is widely regarded as being well and truly into the digital age, also called the information age. However, it’s one thing to design a protocol, it’s something else entirely to build a system to support it. To understand what needs to be done we need to get to the foundations of quantum mechanics - we need to talk about quantum information theory.
Aired: 08/11/19
Video has closed captioning.
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