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Quantum Internet Could Protect Batman's Secret Identity

With countries like China, Pakistan, and even the US spying on their citizens, it's nice to know a remedy might be on its way in the form of the Quantum Internet. As researchers like Seth Lloyd of MIT make progress toward the goal of quantum computing, they've found that the same architecture used to build quantum random access memory (QRAM) could apply across the whole of the internet. This could put an end to internet spying for good, and would mean that Batman could send email to the JLA without fear of discovery. More »

1:51 PM on Tue May 6 2008
By Michael Reilly
1,945 views, 11 comments

Latest by Jeff-Minor: @monkity: I think a Gibson-Stephenson-esque metaverse will have encrypted qualites, and the servers might very well be Q-systems. Regardless, software more »