The real revolution will come with a quantum internet and they go beyond quantum computers.

China and the United States are the two great powers that are dedicating the most resources to the development of quantum communications, but Europe is also contributing to this discipline with very significant advances. Deploying a quantum communications infrastructure with global coverage and a reach comparable to that of the Internet network we currently use will allow us to transfer large volumes of information in an essentially instantaneous manner.

Furthermore, data transmission will be carried out in an inherently secure manner because the intertwining between the nodes involved in the communication is broken if it is compromised in any way.

The quantum internet is coming

When it arrives, and we have good reason to predict that it will arrive, it will coexist with the Internet with which we are all familiar in the same way that quantum computers are called to coexist in perfect harmony with classical supercomputers. Ability to transfer large volumes of data instantly and the inherent invulnerability of quantum communications.

Quantum computers connected by photonic links will presumably shape a quantum internet that will have capabilities unattainable by the network we are all familiar with.