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The Quantum Internet Will Blow Your Mind. Here’s What It Will Look Like

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The Quantum Internet Will Blow Your Mind. Here’s What It Will Look Like The next generation of the Internet will rely on revolutionary new tech — allowing for unhackable networks and information that travels faster than the speed of light. By  Dan Hurley Oct 4, 2020 4:30 AM (Credit: Jurik Peter/Shutterstock) Newsletter Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science news SIGN UP   This article appeared in the November 2020 issue of  Discover  magazine as "The Quest for a Quantum Internet."  Subscribe  for more stories like these. Call it the quantum Garden of Eden. Fifty or so miles east of New York City, on the campus of Brookhaven National Laboratory, Eden Figueroa is one of the world’s pioneering gardeners planting the seeds of a quantum internet. Capable of sending enormous amounts of data over vast distances, it would work not just faster than the current internet but faster than the speed of light — instantaneously, in fact, like the teleporta...