Scientists prove "impossible" Earth-to-space quantum link is feasible

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Professor Devitt compares the long-term vision to modern electricity. "In the future, quantum entanglement is going to be a bit like electricity. A commodity that we talk about that powers other things. It's generated and transmitted in a way that is often invisible to the user; we just plug in our appliances and use it. This will ultimately be the same for large quantum entanglement networks. There will be quantum devices that plug into an entanglement source as well as a power source, utilizing both to do something useful," he said.

Why tho

this just sounds like DRM in space

It burned my classical bullshit detector.

Probably some quantum computers may be useful one day.

Long range quantum link may be useful for very niche applications, like cryptography.

Long range for general use have no hope of being useful.

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