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Quantum Computing and Blockchain in Business

You're reading from   Quantum Computing and Blockchain in Business Exploring the applications, challenges, and collision of quantum computing and blockchain

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838647766
Length 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Arunkumar Krishnakumar Arunkumar Krishnakumar
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Preface 1. Introduction to Quantum Computing and Blockchain 2. Quantum Computing – Key Discussion Points FREE CHAPTER 3. The Data Economy 4. The Impact on Financial Services 5. Interview with Dr. Dave Snelling, Fujitsu Fellow 6. The Impact on Healthcare and Pharma 7. Interview with Dr. B. Rajathilagam, Head of AI Research, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham 8. The Impact on Governance 9. Interview with Max Henderson, Senior Data Scientist, Rigetti and QxBranch 10. The Impact on Smart Cities and Environment 11. Interview with Sam McArdle, Quantum Computing Researcher at the University of Oxford 12. The Impact on Chemistry 13. The Impact on Logistics 14. Interview with Dinesh Nagarajan, Partner, IBM 15. Quantum-Safe Blockchain 16. Nation States and Cyberwars 17. Conclusion – Blue Skies 18. Other Books You May Enjoy
19. Index

Climate modeling

Apart from a few climate change sceptics, most people appreciate that climate change is an important phenomenon that we cannot ignore anymore. According to the World Wildlife Federation (WWF), the earth is losing 18.7 million acres of forests per year, or the equivalent of 27 soccer fields every minute. This is a serious problem, as forests are carbon sinks because trees absorb and store carbon dioxide.

There is a hypothesis that climate change or global warming is a cyclical event. Since the last cycle that saw the ice age, global temperatures raised between 3°C to 8°C over the space of 10,000 years. It is the current scientific consensus that carbon emissions due to human actions have been a large factor in accelerating this cycle of climate change. Research by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has identified that there is a 90% chance that recent climatic change is associated with human actions. Source: https://www.ipcc.ch/

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