Sabine Hossenfelder’s take on #quantum #computers is worth a watch for anyone who thinks they're just 10-15 years away.
I remember first reading about
#QuantumComputers in a magazine in my junior high school library (~1989). It was prophesied then we would have quantum computers (and flying cars!) by 2000. That hype has never died.
#QuantumComputing just isn't hard, it's incredibly fucking expensive, and as it turns out, might not be very useful.
@atoponce Theres been a lot of promising applications in recent years in quantum sensing and imaging, which are closer to fields that physicists are already good at.
And there may be some very niche special purpose stuff possible in the next 2 decades.
But I agree, general QC is probably still very very far off.
@monotrox99 Yup. Turns out, noise is a bitch.
@atoponce quantum sensing is also kind of ironic because people realized that qubits are so incredibly sensitive to environment conditions that that alone can be used for better measurements.
At the same time its the reason QC is insanely difficult