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UNSW is lying in their headline to attract attention to their research. We aren't close to affordable quantum computing because we don't have quantum computing
by copsarebastards 12y ago
UNSW is lying in their headline to attract attention to their research.
We aren't close to affordable quantum computing because we don't have quantum computing at any price point, let alone at an affordable one. Even a single multibillion dollar quantum computer would have huge implications, most notably that RSA, the basis for most of modern security, would be broken.
This is like claiming we're close to affordable human Mars travel. We haven't even put one human on Mars; it would be ridiculous to claim we are close to making it affordable.