As mind-bendingly counterintuitive as the subject is, though, it is showing up in all kinds of technological spaces these days. Including the stock market.
Which of the various technologies being tried out today will get to that big milestone of an industrial-size quantum computer with acceptable levels of interference?
Steady progress is being made, though, and along with the potential benefits from quantum computing in areas such as drug discovery, there are plenty of threats.
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Nobody understands quantum mechanics. That’s according to the late Richard Feynman, and as one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, he was in a good position to opine on the subject.
