IBM’s mission is to help their clients change the way the world works. There’s no better example of that than IBM Research’s annual “5 in 5” technology predictions. Each year, we showcase some of the biggest breakthroughs coming out of IBM Research’s global labs – five technologies that they believe will fundamentally reshape business and society in the next five years. This innovation is informed by research taking place at IBM Labs, leading edge work taking place with our clients, and trends we see in the tech/business landscape.
Later today, they’ll introduce the scientists behind this year’s 5 in 5 at a Science Slam held at the site of IBM’s biggest client event of the year: Think 2018 in Las Vegas. Watch it live or catch the replay here. Science Slams give their researchers the opportunity to convey the importance of their work to a general audience in a very short span of time — approximately 5 minutes. They have found this to be an extremely useful exercise that makes our innovation more accessible by distilling it down to its core essentials.
Here’s one of the five predictions IBM scientists will present this year.
Today, quantum computing is a researcher’s playground. In five years, it will be mainstream.
In five years, the effects of quantum computing will reach beyond the research lab. Quantum computing will no longer be exclusive to thescientificcommunity, but instead will be used extensively by new categories of professionals and developers looking to this emerging method of computing to solve problems once considered unsolvable.