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PBS Space Time
The Quantum Internet
Season 5
Episode 26
The world is widely regarded as being well and truly into the digital age, also called the information age. However, it’s one thing to design a protocol, it’s something else entirely to build a system to support it. To understand what needs to be done we need to get to the foundations of quantum mechanics - we need to talk about quantum information theory.
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