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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That’s funny. Is that from a real episode or someone’s photoshop? I was never into NextGen.
If it’s a feasible concept, the commercial world and hence the public will have it as soon as possible.......
some background info here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computing
That gif is older than dirt, a classic none the less, but definitely a
modified scene from a Next Gen episode.
TEOTWAWKI will be a quantum BSOD, lol.
There’s a whole lot more that these things can do.
They’ll be able to create materials that can do anything.
More frightening is that they’ll be able to do genetics work on a scale that’s um weird amazing and dangerous. I also think that quantum computers will have the power to questions about quantum space—making warp drive and star travel possible.
Not mine. Mine has a Turbo button and a math coprocessor!
I work with a lot of customers on things that are not yet available.
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anything related to sub $500@ acre foot water desalination?
Quantum computing has been right around the corner for 20 years. I mean eventually it will be, but don’t hold your breath.
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yeah, that’s conventional wisdom. but plenty of techs say this time there fire as well as smoke. notice in the article — they say that quantum computes have moved from the research dept to the engineering dept.
Many decades? Sorry I disagree. It’s not the 1940s anymore, we have already recognized the concept of the personal computer as being valid, which was a big hurdle at the time. There were technology moguls that claimed, up until the 80s, that the PC would never take off. If there is a commercial application for this type of computer then there is a consumer market for this kind of computer. Where there is a market, there is (or will be) a producer will to service that market.
Quantum computers will be powered by electricity from Nuclear Fusion reactors.
Been hearing that for 20 years too. But it could be this time. I’d like it, but I ain’t gonna invest in it.
Hey I totally believe Elon Musk will orbit two men around the moon in 2018, deliver 500,000 electric cars annually by 2020 and put a man on mars in 2025. as well, I think his solar factory in Buffalo will produce solar cells that will crash the cost of solar power to .02@ kwh.
but I would not invest in his companies.
Hey I totally believe Elon Musk will orbit two men around the moon in 2018, deliver 500,000 electric cars annually by 2020 and put a man on mars in 2025. as well, I think his solar factory in Buffalo will produce solar cells that will crash the cost of solar power to .02@ kwh.
but I would not invest in his companies.
The first application will be cracking encryption — which quantum computers promise to do in near real-time. Expect the government to classify them, then all the real work making a viable civilian product will come from... elsewhere.
My understanding is still the same. Quantum computers will work really well on some problems, but not others.
Where there is a market, there is (or will be) a producer will to service that market.
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Totally agree. The question is —how fast.
computers were in use by large corporations in the 1950’s. But they didn’t get to the consumer market until 30 years later in the 1980’s.
So there are two questions asked here. when will fully functional quantum computers be available for large corporations? the answer seems to be sometime in the next 5-10 years. Then when will quantum computers be available for consumers. If conventional computers are any model then about 30 years after corporate quantum computers are available -—consumer priced quantum computers will become available.
Given that increased computer speeds have a way of collapsing time frame for events—you might cut 30 years in half to 15 years.
So if quantum computers become available to corporations in 2025—if you add 15 years — you get 2040 as the date personal quantum computers become available to the public.
That makes the arrival of personal quantum computers coincide with the singularity
That’s the case with the current generation of quantum computer called the d wave.
The question about Q computers is whether they can be relied upon for critical functions.
But I’m happy to see the epicenter of research and the bulk of breakthroughs in the US.
Should I ask about future generations of quantum computers?
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