Posted on 03/13/2017 2:02:51 PM PDT by ckilmer
IBM Q isn’t vaporware. It’s a project years-in-the-making that could help quantum computation reach its massive potential. The future of quantum computers may arrive sooner than you think. When news arrived of IBM’s move to offer the first commercially available universal quantum computer last week, it was characterized as a “handoff” from IBM Research to IBM Systems. According to the company’s CTO and vice president of quantum computing, technical strategy, and systems, Scott Crowder, that’s not entirely the case.
“It’s not quite a ‘handoff,’ it’s really a partnership,” explained Crowder. “This is definitely a transition point from it being pure science, pure research, to also being engineering, and development, and commercialization.”
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The government is always way ahead of the commercial mainstream. When Clinton lifted RSA export restrictions in 1998 my first reaction was “OK, NSA’s first quantum computers must have come online”. Time will tell.
Should I ask about future generations of quantum computers?
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there’s a couple of early fore runners of quantum computers. the d wave is one. I think google’s current generation quantum computer is provided by d wave. But its not considered to be a true quantum computer. and its functions are limited.
True quantum computers are not expect to arrive for another 5-10 years.
consumer quantum computers may arrive in 25 years or about 2040.
Quantum computers attached to an anti-aircraft radar. Suddenly all the stealth airframes we bought are visible again. And we will be stuck with a bunch of planes that paid a lot of performance penalties to be invisible.
Should I ask about future generations of quantum computers?
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there’s a couple of early fore runners of quantum computers. the d wave is one. I think google’s current generation quantum computer is provided by d wave. But its not considered to be a true quantum computer. and its functions are limited.
True quantum computers are not expect to arrive for another 5-10 years.
consumer quantum computers may arrive in 25 years or about 2040.
But that’s still 25-30 years away. which gives plenty of life left for current generation stealth and plenty of updates and inbetween techs and who knows what tech.
But that’s still 25-30 years away. which gives plenty of life left for current generation stealth and plenty of updates and inbetween techs and who knows what tech.
But that’s still 25-30 years away. which gives plenty of life left for current generation stealth and plenty of updates and inbetween techs and who knows what tech.
I know what you are saying but the market was slow to service the consumer market because they didn’t think the consumer market wanted PCs. That is not the case now and the previous model has been invalidated. Within a year, two max, of a corporate release there will be consumer quantum PCs, in fact there will be “consumers” that buy “corporate” machines and we will be able to watch online videos of people starting them up and using them for some idiotic purpose or another.
Just what the government needs to complete omnipresence.
Just within the last week, an IBM research lab demonstrated that...
“One bit of digital information can now be successfully stored in an individual atom. This result is a breakthrough in the miniaturization of storage media and has the potential to serve as a basis for quantum computing.”
From Science Daily:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170309120521.htm
WordStar will scream on that machine!
Re: “Quantum computers will be powered by electricity from Nuclear Fusion reactors.”
LOL!
Several years ago I estimated that at least $50 billion had been invested in fusion reactor research by Europe, Japan, and the USA since 1953.
Although I am a passionate supporter of basic research, I wonder what would have happened if we had invested that money in solar electricity and electrical storage technology instead?
Can you sure the virtual realty that we can still only dream about. Full sensory overload.
They’re going to cost too much for consumers for awhile.
3d printing has been used by corporations since the 1990’s for prototyping. But the costs were so high it wasn’t really a consumer product until after 2010 when the prices came down.
If you wonder why Microsoft has stated that Windows 10 will be the last Windows, look at this innovation, as well as the new 128-bit processor chips. We’re going a “quantum leap” above where we were before.
I’ve been telling people for the last year that we’re in the first year of a five year period on the other side of which the world be very different. In the way that the first five years the internet years in roughly 1995-2000 — really changed the world—so much so —that the world before 1995 is just way different from what emerged after 2000.
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