The Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) commented on the publication about plans to introduce teleportation in Russia by 2035, which caused a resonance in the media and the blogosphere. The agency said that we are talking about quantum teleportation, which in fact is just a very reliable communication line.
“Unlike teleportation in science fiction, in quantum teleportation, neither matter movement, nor energy movement occurs. This is just an ultra-reliable communication line,”Dmitry Peskov, director of the Young Professionals department of ASI, who was developing this area, explained to the BBC Russian Service.
Earlier, the newspaper "Kommersant" published a note, according to which on this Wednesday the interdepartmental working group in the government will discuss the implementation of the program "National Technology Initiative", developed by ASI.
According to the publication, NTI assumes in 2025-2035 "the introduction of a neurointerface, quantum computing, teleportation, the use of nature-like phenomena to transmit information."
The mention of teleportation has generated a strong reaction in the media and social media. Many journalists believed that by 2035 the agency plans to introduce precisely the technology of instantaneous movement of material objects in space.
What is Quantum Teleportation
Peskov confirmed to the BBC that a roadmap for the development of the SafeNet security systems market was discussed at an interagency working group in the government on Wednesday. According to him, one of the parts of the development of this market is the development of quantum communications and quantum communication lines.
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He noted that quantum communication lines have already become a commercial product. “The first such line was created by the Russian Quantum Center under a contract with Gazprombank and is already in operation,” Peskov explained.
According to him, quantum lines are also used for quantum teleportation - this is "the transfer of the polarization state of photons in prostration."
According to Peskov, the media reported that the government had just started implementing the NTI, although in fact the program has been implemented for a long time and has already yielded first results. He also noted that the journalists of Kommersant did not ask him for explanations about the teleportation technology mentioned in the document.