A New Leaf & Quantum Supremacy (Trailer) | VICE on HBO

This week on VICE on HBO, we’re taking a look at cocaine in Colombia and the rise of quantum computing.

In Colombia, cultivation of coca, the main ingredient of cocaine, has nearly tripled over the past five years. As part of the 2016 peace agreement between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the country has embarked on a unique experiment to try to end coca farming and production, but freeing Colombia from its cocaine problem is proving difficult. Charlet Duboc travels to the remote towns where coca farming is a way of life to examine the struggle for a cocaine-free Colombia.

And then....

Computer giants are racing to build the first quantum computer, a device with millions of times more processing strength than all the computers currently on Earth combined. This technology will harness the unusual laws of quantum mechanics to bring unimaginable advances in fields like materials science and medicine, but could also pose the greatest threat to cybersecurity yet. Taylor Wilson meets the scientists at the cutting edge of this new age of computing.

See if Friday at 7:30 PM and 11 PM EDT on HBO.

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[nelly]

Description of the video confused me. My mind conjured up an image of drug cartels using quantum computing.

[demartin]

The guy in the thumbnail is super attractive. He isn’t in the video so why’s his picture up

[jim]

00:10 "I cannot accept this is a futile job" Said everyone that relies on a job to live.

[gabeennin]

Wow, man VICE is killing it with all these new documentaries!

[roswelarea]

And a brother's photo is on front to represent what in this video..WTF..

[hinduspl]

VICE News whats the name of that beat at the end 0:35

[TheRafaBStudio]

0:01 just like me when is my birthday parties.

[theminetoll]

I thought that was Mo Bomba in the thumbnail

[BIGNIC]

not possible to stream this show in Germany ;D;D;D;D

[darkmath]

Quantum computing is a pipe dream. D-Wave is another Theranos. Why? B/c the error detection on Qbits still require integrated circuits. The only solution is a QBit that doesn't produce errors every once in a while which is impossible. They're still susceptible to the physical world like cosmic rays, EMF noise from things like lightening or any other number of phenomenon. Once you tie a QBit to the physical world like that then their massive advantage goes away. For every computation there is some number of error checks that are required. Pretty soon you'd need an army of error detection circuits which would rise exponential making Quantum Computing prohibitively expensive if not impossible. One step forward two steps back isn't a valid business model.
History is replete with people using science to wow potential investors to throw money away. Alchemy was the first example. The fraud got so bad they eventually had to outlaw investing in Alchemist who stole billions doing "research". A fool and his money are soon parted.

[playboyshy]

As long as it ain't political. Only so much libtard I can take 😑