Quantum Computing and Digital technology for the frailties of everyday life
Editorial
Last October, Google announced that it had achieved quantum supremacy. The digital giant had succeeded in sampling a random quantum circuit in 200 seconds, a task that would take the world's best supercomputer 10,000 years. And even though this calculation was basically of no interest, the news hit like a bombshell.
What could possibly explain such a craze for a technology that is still in its infancy and that, for the time being, performs useless tasks?
Find out in this issue's Quantum Computing dossier.
The Covid-19 crisis, with its harrowing period of confinement, has brought us all closer to the lives and feelings of vulnerable people, whether disabled, chronically ill, suffering from various mental pathologies or socially disadvantaged, including but not limited to the elderly...
Digital technology is undoubtedly a key lever for improving the day-to-day lives of the frail, as the following articles demonstrate, with numerous examples from several start-ups that are very active in this field.
