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Re: A good news

From	Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: A good news
Date	2016-01-22 20:33 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 14:06:22 -0800, Ramine wrote:

> Hello...............
> 
> 
> Quantum computing will change lives, society and the economy and a
> working system is expected to be developed by 2020 according to a
> leading figure in the world of quantum computing, who will talk tomorrow
> Jan. 21, 2016 at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.
> 
> Professor O'Brien said: "In less than ten years quantum computers will
> begin to outperform everyday computers, leading to breakthroughs in
> artificial intelligence, the discovery of new pharmaceuticals and
> beyond."
> 
>
I seem to remember this being said when Josephson got the Nobel for 
Josephson Junctions in 1973. IBM had experimental stuff with running with 
single qubits about the same time and was promising machines based on 
them 'real soon now' - that was 4 decades ago and I've heard very little 
about them from IBM recently. Now D-wave claims to have quantum annealing 
giving super performance but only seem to be getting good results from 
very carefully chosen algorithms.

To me, this is all sounding a lot like fusion power, which was touted as 
solving all our power needs in 30-40 years when ZETA was started up in 
1957. Well, that was 60 decades ago and fusion power is *still* 30-40 
years away.

Anybody else see parallels?
 

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Re: A good news Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-01-22 20:33 +0000
  Re: A good news Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 13:59 -0800
    Re: A good news Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-01-22 22:12 +0000
      Re: A good news Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-01-26 06:22 -0800
        Re: A good news Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-01-26 22:45 +0000

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