Financial Times (June 12)
“After years of false dawns, many of the world’s leading tech companies are now betting that quantum computers will start to outperform their conventional counterparts by 2030—with a potentially huge impact on fields ranging from cryptocurrencies and financial services to drug discovery.” Opinions vary widely. “Some scientists worry that the sheer power of the technology could endanger privacy and national security while others still doubt that useful machines can be made at all.”
Tags: 2030, Conventional, Cryptocurrencies, Drug discovery, Endanger, False dawns, Financial services, National security, Outperform, Privacy, Quantum computers, Scientists, Tech companies
The Economist (June 6)
“At last Japan has introduced corporate-governance reforms that will make a difference.” It will be neither a sudden or complete transformation. “Japan’s corporate-governance revolution has had many false dawns.” Nevertheless, there are finally “reasons to think that real change is under way.”
Tags: False dawns, Governance, Japan, Real change, Reforms, Transformation
