<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 8:22 PM John Grigg <</span><a href="mailto:possiblepaths2050@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">possiblepaths2050@gmail.com</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:proxima-nova,sans-serif;line-height:26px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:26px"><span lang="en-US" style="box-sizing:border-box"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Quantum computers are making all the headlines these days, but quantum communication technology may actually be closer to practical implementation.</i></span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I don't see what point there would be in making a</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">I don't see the point of building a </font></span><font size="4">Quantum Internet unless Quantum Computers were close to practical implementation because its only advantage i<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">s</span> its ability to supply secure encryption even if your opponent has a Quantum Computer.</font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><font size="4">Incidentally American companies are starting to fall behind in the race to build the first practical Quantum Computer because there are less than a thousand experts in this field in the entire world and Trump's State Department is reluctant to approve visas to foreign scientists so they can<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>work in the USA.</font><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/technology/quantum-computing-jobs-immigration-visas.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Technology">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/technology/quantum-computing-jobs-immigration-visas.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Technology</a><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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