UK business investment in new technologies such as quantum computing, blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies, and artificial intelligence (AI) is set to jump in the next five years.
The CBI and Accenture Tech Tracker survey indicates the proportion of firms seeking to invest in quantum computing is set to nearly triple (from 11 percent today to 32 percent in five years). Though still in its research phase it has the potential to speed up complex calculations – doing in just a few minutes what a computer would take thousands of years to do.
