>It won’t be cool or hyped again until general purpose quantum computing becomes a reality. Which, to be clear, could be never. Aside from factoring numbers, s

>It won’t be cool or hyped again until general purpose quantum computing becomes a reality. Which, to be clear, could be never. Aside from factoring numbers, solving certain optimization problems, and simulating quantum systems, there are very few known applications where quantum computers even theoretically outperform classical computers. Of course, it's possible that as quantum computers become more powerful/robust, it will inspire discovery of new classes of problems/algorithms that they excel at. But I'm not holding my breath.