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Or a genius could discover some killer application for one of 1000 different competing technologies that are not quantum computing but replace current technolog
by unishark 6y ago
Or a genius could discover some killer application for one of 1000 different competing technologies that are not quantum computing but replace current technology instead. This giant ramp up of something that is still long-term high-risk is kind of strange to watch. Surely all that funding would be better spent doing fundamental research on hardware, rather than developing the IT layers. I guess at least the stupid software patents will expire sooner once it finally becomes real.
- marcus_holmes 6y agoI lived in University accomodation with a researcher who was working on transistors for optical computers, and predicted them taking over from silicon in "10 years, tops". That was in 1989. The relationship between funding and hype is always weird. But it must be really hard having to decide which of several projects to fund, and "what people are talking about" is obviously one of the metrics.