Quantum Information Technologies Applied to Nature and Society

Abstract

In the chapter, the main areas of science that will impact the social diffusion of quantum computing are analyzed. The analysis begins by outlining some of the fundamental notions of this new technology and its need to be adapted to the common knowledge of citizens in order to understand its potential from the perspective of communicability and informatics. The educational aspects that must be reformed and/or improved to increase interest in the study of science, and in particular towards this new paradigm of digital and interactive information, are also disclosed. Finally, the results of a heuristic experiment based on science fiction and with users of new technologies belonging to generation Z are disclosed.