[SeekAndFind]

[DannyTN]

Whether it exists or not depends on whether you look at it.

[thackney]

So it gets an answer faster than any other, but due to the Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, the answer may or may not be correct?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Ask it how to effectively expurgate Islam from the face of the Earth.

Oh...but wait...it's Google.

[Coffee... Black... No Sugar]

OOOOH! What’s next!
Moore’s Law says it will be twice as awesome! ... you just have to wait.

[Wolfie]

[circlecity]

Great, better graphics and gameplay on the next “Call of Duty” release.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The end of encryption?

[Billthedrill]

What will it do for pr0N?

[Moonman62]

Ask it how to reverse entropy and keep asking until it comes up with a solution.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Can it go back in time to 2008 and warn people of the Obama Holocaust?

[Bob434]

pfffft- not faster than my HP hexacore and my whopping 16 gig of memory- lol

[OttawaFreeper]

Will it be like Nomad in the Star Trek TOS episode “The Changeling” or the one that was really Landru in “The Return of the Archons”?

[rawcatslyentist]

Yeah, and they’ll be in wristwatches in 2 years.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

BFL

[rjsimmon]

I would say that is quite the...

[MCH]

OK, so there's definite potential here, but as usual some of the claims and comparisons are ridiculous.

They compared it against a single-core processor that is emulating a quantum computer, vs. running natively. And not multi-core, which is how current computing technology has increased its capability in recent years vs. bump up clock speeds? Hardly fair in either case, in terms of comparing hardware capabilities at least.

And as always, computer hardware doesn't "solve problems" or inherently add intelligence on its own. That requires software. So even super fast quantum computers of the future will be just as seriously limited by software technology as they are now. Yeah, they'll run the same software encoded algorithms much faster, but there's nothing that's inherently more "intelligent" about that.

The one thing this technology will do is be much more tolerant of bloated and inefficient software, multiple layers to build up to writing software at higher levels of abstraction, etc. Those are all positives of a sort. But again, smarter and more "intelligent" claims are all about the software and how well it scales, not the hardware, even though there are other big advantages associated with major leaps in hardware technology like this.

[dartuser]

Does it run Windows? Will I still be able to use email and surf the web?

[Kickass Conservative]

It’s too bad that the Computer still isn’t as smart as Obama. /s

[SgtHooper]

I bet it crowbars on a common core question.