I think we will get some “break throughs” in Quantum Computing that Google execs will assure us makes their company worth five trillion dollars.

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        You can’t point at a qbit it just looks like a regular chip but in a fridge and everything it can even hypothetically do is boring behind the scenes nerd shit.

        With the “self driving” car you can point at a car with sensors and shit strapped to it, with the “AI” you can point to the slop it generated.

        With quantum, what do you point at? A little notification on your bank’s account website that says “your account is now Quantum Secure?”

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          A little notification on your bank’s account website that says “your account is now Quantum Secure?”

          that’s still meaningless until somebody proves that Quantum computers actually can break pre-Quantum encryption in practical human time frames (like minutes/days/weeks) and non-state actors can purchase such hardware.

          Would be funny if we ended up in a future where the FBI smugly said “We don’t need your password, we’ll just Quantum in!” and the Quantum computer averages 1.5 years on most iPhones.

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          You can’t point at a qbit it just looks like a regular chip but in a fridge and everything it can even hypothetically do is boring behind the scenes nerd shit.

          yes, I frequently find that tech journalism is held back by its rigid adherence to truth