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.