Babbage: Photon opportunity

<p>How has Albert Einstein’s work on photons ushered in a <a href="https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2021/01/07/how-understanding-light-has-led-to-a-hundred-years-of-bright-ideas?utm_campaign=babbage&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=third-party-host&amp;utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">golden age of light</a>? Oliver Morton, <em>The Economist's</em> briefings editor, explores why the <a href="https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2021/01/07/why-lasers-are-so-brilliantly-useful?utm_campaign=babbage&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=third-party-host&amp;utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">laser's applications</a> have been spectacular and how <a href="https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2021/01/07/how-governments-spurred-the-rise-of-solar-power?utm_campaign=babbage&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=third-party-host&amp;utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">solar power</a> became the cheapest source of electricity in many countries. Also, he talks to the scientists scanning the skies with the <a href="https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2021/01/07/from-the-universe-to-the-dataverse?utm_campaign=babbage&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=third-party-host&amp;utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">largest digital camera in the world</a>.</p><p><br></p><p>Please subscribe to <em>The Economist</em> for full access to print, digital and audio editions:</p><p><a href="http://www.economist.com/podcastoffer?utm_campaign=babbage&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=third-party-host&amp;utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.economist.com/podcastoffer</a></p> &#10;&nbsp;<br /><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>