2024-07-29
41 分钟QUANTUM COMPUTING – Correspondent Scott Pelley reports on the pioneering technology of quantum computing, a new kind of computer that could answer impossible questions in physics, chemistry, engineering and medicine. Pelley travels to California to see Google’s quantum lab, visits one of the first quantum computers outside the lab at Cleveland Clinic and gets a first look at IBM’s newest quantum computer, its most advanced to date. Denise Schrier Cetta and Katie Brennan are the producers. KNIFE – In his first television interview since he was attacked at a literary festival in Chautauqua, N.Y., almost two years ago, author Salman Rushdie details his experience to correspondent Anderson Cooper. Rushdie, who was stabbed 15 times and lost his right eye, has come to terms with the attack by writing about it in his new book, KNIFE (Penguin, 2024.) He talks to Cooper about Iran’s religious decree – or fatwa – that called for his death 35 years ago, his years in hiding and how he reclaimed his life in the U.S. before he was nearly killed by an assailant wielding a knife. Michael Gavshon and Nadim Roberts are the producers. COLLEGE OF MAGIC – You can’t wave a wand and make intolerance, poverty and violence disappear, but you can use magic to try. Jon Wertheim visits the College of Magic in Cape Town, South Africa, where students learn sleight of hand, juggling, ventriloquism and card tricks. But what the school really teaches is also the great superpower of magic itself: rethinking the limits of possibility. Michael Gavshon and Nadim Roberts are the producers. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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This machine can create nearly the coldest conditions in the universe at about 460 degrees below zero.
In that environment, a radically new kind of computer may change civilization as we know it.
We're looking at a race between China, between IBM, Google, Microsoft, Honeywell.
Because the nation or company that does this will rule the world economy.
Did people try to kill you?
Yes.
Author Salman Rushdie has been a marked man for nearly half his Life.
And in 2022, a knife wielding attacker almost killed him.
This is his first television interview.
One of the surgeons who had saved my life said to me, he said, first you were really unlucky and then you were really lucky.
I said, what's the lucky part?
And he said, well, the lucky part is that the man who attacked you had no idea how to kill a man with a knife.
You can't wave a wand and make intolerance, hardship and violence disappear.
But you can use magic to try.
Everybody the Magic Plant.
We learned that after visiting a remarkable school in Cape Town, South Africa.
It's called the College of Magic.