Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 29th Jun 2009 14:55 UTC
With all the talk about Moore's Law, and doomsday predictions of the industry hitting the ceiling of what's possible with regular transistors, you'd almost forget that a lot of people are already thinking about the next revolution in computing: quantum computers. Researchers at Yale have succeeded in producing the first working solid-state quantum processor. Highly intriguing, but way over my head.
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RE: Digital used to be "magic" too..
by sbergman27 on Mon 29th Jun 2009 19:41
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Just wait another 30 years, maybe 40, and you'll have 12-year olds hacking quantum computers.
If so, this is going to leave a lot of us old folks behind. The quantum world is freaking weird. So we're talking a generation of tech guys thinking fundamentally differently than any human beings who have come before them. The iPod generation will never keep up.
In the immortal words of Niels Bohr: "Anybody who thinks they understand quantum physics is wrong."
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2006-03-18
I'm pretty sure 60 or so years ago, digital computing was "magic" to most people out there. Just wait another 30 years, maybe 40, and you'll have 12-year olds hacking quantum computers.