A selection of notable quotes and comments we’ve come across this month
By Marc Ambasna-Jones 09 Apr 25 Reading time: 2 mins
“If we design for the PowerPoint slides and not for the real world, it will fail.”
Jessica Pyett-Ellis of WM5G talking at the Connected Futures event in Bristol on why health and social care needs a tech and connectivity future that understands its problems and process limitations
“Energy efficiency and reducing carbon emissions are becoming increasingly important. We are moving towards a unified, AI-driven network and embedded security functioning like a biological immune system.”
“We’ll see the first quantum-secure financial transactions within five years.”
“Once we have functional, scalable quantum repeaters, quantum networks will move from city-wide deployments to global, end-to-end encryption for financial transactions, healthcare, and national security.”
“Only nation-states and large corporations will have access to quantum computing anytime soon – and will they really spend their limited computing power cracking encryption algorithms when they could instead be boosting their economic output and dominating financial markets?”
“Safeguarding data from future risk is a huge challenge for businesses, particularly when the threat comes from a technology as complex and unknown as quantum.”
Buddy Bayer, chief operating officer at Colt Technology Services, talking about the completion of a quantum secured encryption trial across its optical network (via email)
“While some may suggest that a standalone quantum computer is still years away, the commercial opportunities from this breakthrough are here and now.”
Dr Thomas Ehmer from the Healthcare business sector of Merck KGaA in Darmstadt, Germany, talking about Quantinuum’s Generative Quantum AI framework, which leverages unique quantum-generated data to enable commercial applications in areas such as new medicine development, precise predictive modeling of financial markets and real-time optimisation of global logistics and supply chains (via email)
Working as a technology journalist and writer since 1989, Marc has written for a wide range of titles on technology, business, education, politics and sustainability, with work appearing in The Guardian, The Register, New Statesman, Computer Weekly and many more.
