US Risks Losing The Quantum Race Without Urgent Workforce Development

A prominent quantum computing executive is raising the alarm on the need for the private, public, and academic sectors to step up their efforts to identify and prepare thousands of people to support the next big technology revolution. If the US fails to act with sufficient momentum, global economic competitors may take a lead position in the rapidly emerging quantum industry. This risk could have severe long-term consequences in every part of the US economy. It’s a clear warning that demands immediate attention.

Classical computing, the technology that has served us for many decades and powers smartphones, laptops, and effectively anything with a chip inside it, has been nothing short of revolutionary. It’s reliable and predictable science based on the manipulation of electricity and fortunately year after year so far, engineers have been able to improve the technology and speed up the rate of information processing.

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