Writer-director Noah Hutton has shrewdly crafted a science-fiction world that closely resembles our own. The premise of the film is that quantum computing has revolutionised the world’s financial markets, further exploding the dominance of the financial industry. The shabby underbelly of this quantum computing revolution is the rise of ‘cabling’ — workers managed by an algorithm, via an app, dragging cables through the woods between one quantum computing node and another.

Read Economist Dan Nahum’s review of Lapsis.

Business representatives sit down today with government and others to talk about productivity. Who, according to those business representatives, will need to change the way they do things?