{"id":20701,"date":"2025-11-03T08:37:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T07:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/03\/history-wont-forgive-us-if-uk-falls-behind-in-quantum-computing-race-says-tony-blair\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T08:37:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T07:37:49","slug":"history-wont-forgive-us-if-uk-falls-behind-in-quantum-computing-race-says-tony-blair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/03\/history-wont-forgive-us-if-uk-falls-behind-in-quantum-computing-race-says-tony-blair\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018History won\u2019t forgive us\u2019 if UK falls behind in quantum computing race, says Tony Blair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Former PM and ex-Tory leader William Hague warn UK lacks high-risk capital and infrastructure to harness benefits of powerful technology<\/p>\n<p>Tony Blair has said \u201chistory won\u2019t forgive us\u201d if the UK falls behind in the race to harness quantum computing, a frontier technology predicted to trigger the next wave of breakthroughs in everything from drug design to climate modelling.<\/p>\n<p>The former British Labour prime minister, whose thinktank and consultancy, the Tony Blair Institute, is backed by tech industry leaders including the Oracle founder, Larry Ellison, warned: \u201cThe country risks failing to convert its leadership in quantum research.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/nov\/03\/history-wont-forgive-us-if-uk-falls-behind-in-quantum-computing-race-says-tony-blair\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b0bae56b8f193d05cf5da36e64f831b60d01e8bf\/982_0_6880_5504\/master\/6880.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f24223c3aada112b65f1770f331d6d7c\" title=\"\u2018History won\u2019t forgive us\u2019 if UK falls behind in quantum computing race, says Tony Blair\" \/>Exclusive: Former PM and ex-Tory leader William Hague warn UK lacks high-risk capital and infrastructure to harness benefits of powerful technology<br \/>\nTony Blair has said \u201chistory won\u2019t forgive us\u201d if the UK falls behind in the race to harness quantum computing, a frontier technology predicted to trigger the next wave of breakthroughs in everything from drug design to climate modelling.<br \/>\nThe former British Labour prime minister, whose thinktank and consultancy, the Tony Blair Institute, is backed by tech industry leaders including the Oracle founder, Larry Ellison, warned: \u201cThe country risks failing to convert its leadership in quantum research.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Former PM and ex-Tory leader William Hague warn UK lacks high-risk capital and infrastructure to harness benefits of powerful technology Tony Blair has said \u201chistory won\u2019t forgive us\u201d if the UK falls behind in the race to harness quantum computing, a frontier technology predicted to trigger the next wave of breakthroughs in everything from &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/03\/history-wont-forgive-us-if-uk-falls-behind-in-quantum-computing-race-says-tony-blair\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018History won\u2019t forgive us\u2019 if UK falls behind in quantum computing race, says Tony Blair<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20701"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}