Quantum Internet Is 13 Years Away. Wait, What’s Quantum Internet?
A year ago this week, Chinese physicists launched the world’s first quantumsatellite. Unlike the dishes that deliver your Howard Stern and cricket tournaments, this 1,400-pound behemoth doesn’t beam radio waves. Instead, the physicists designed it to send and receive bits of information encoded in delicate photons of infrared light. It’s a test of a budding technology known as quantum…