Parallelisation and QC are mostly orthogonal in that you don’t need QC to do parallelisation properly and most of QC can be done with the current state of class

Parallelisation and QC are mostly orthogonal in that you don’t need QC to do parallelisation properly and most of QC can be done with the current state of classical parallelisation. I would also not suggest working on QC as a software developer just yet, given that QC theory is far more advanced than QC hardware already. Nevertheless, what certainly is worth working on and an area that unfortunately does not get as much attention as I would prefer is ‘QC-safe’ classical encryption, i.e. encryption schemes implementable on classical computers that cannot be easily cracked by QC. Otherwise we’re just waiting for someone to build a QC and set up a website ‘Upload a public key here and get the private key via email’.