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QUANTUM TAMERS: REVEALING OUR WEIRD AND WIRED FUTURE

From deep inside the sewers of Vienna—site of groundbreaking quantum teleportation experiments (and location of the 1949 thriller The Third Man¬)—to cutting-edge quantum computing labs, to voyages into the minds of the world’s brightest thinkers, including renowned British scientist Stephen Hawking, The Quantum Tamers: Revealing Our Weird & Wired Future explores the coming quantum technological revolution.

 

Since the dawn of civilization, all human innovations have evolved in a similar pattern: first we observe nature; then we understand it; then we tame and exploit it to our advantage. Take fire as an example: early humans observed it when lightning struck and ignited parched forests. Over time, inventors learned to understand and control it, ultimately harnessing fire to power the steam engines, railways, and automobiles that changed the face of our industrial and cultural landscape in ways those early humans could not have imagined.