A Series of Tubes #107: Vikram Sharma from Quintessence Labs on Next-Generation Quantum Comms & Rants with Stilgherrian
February 18th, 2010I confess: after writing about it for the best part of a decade, I still find quantum communications strange and fascinating. I also get interested in new research companies – especially when they’re Australian companies commercialising basic physics – like Quintessence Labs.
This week, A Series of Tubes explores both the physics and the commercialisation. Quintessence Labs’ founder and CEO, Vikram Sharma, talks about the company’s work with RMIT on second-generation quantum cryptography devices. He hopes the equipment will one day shrink to “the size of a broadband modem”.
And Tubes talks to Stilgherrian about the Google Buzz publicity and privacy “fubar”, Telstra’s 42 Mbps moves, wireless in Swindon, and the complex interaction between censorship, the Internet, and TV news.
