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Quantum Computing and Blockchain in Business

You're reading from  Quantum Computing and Blockchain in Business

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838647766
Pages 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Arunkumar Krishnakumar Arunkumar Krishnakumar
Profile icon Arunkumar Krishnakumar
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Preface 1. Introduction to Quantum Computing and Blockchain 2. Quantum Computing – Key Discussion Points 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

Carbon capture

We live in times where we are suffering consistent anomalies in weather patterns across the world. The impact of these weather anomalies is at the moment quite localized. In 2020 we have seen fires in Australia and rising temperatures across the continent, forest fires in California, floods like never before in Asia and Africa – all of which are everyday natural events that show us that we are in a state of climate emergency.

Scientists across the world have reached the consensus that climate change is happening. Thanks to the industrial revolution over the last three centuries, human action has helped increase the pace at which we are emitting Carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere.

The surging world population of ~7.8 billion people has increased the demand for food and therefore agriculture. The pressure on agricultural produce due to the increase in population has resulted in the expansion of agricultural lands, which in turn has resulted...

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