IBM Wants Everyone to Try a Quantum Computer

Re:IBM Wants Everyone to Try a Quantum Computer by mortdeus on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @12:19PM (#11629417)

The quantum computer is going to suffer the same fate as plan 9. As Kernighan said, it's not as novel of an upgrade to warrant a mass adoption. Especially considering the price. Not everybody needs a real time black hole simulator...

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Re:IBM Wants Everyone to Try a Quantum Computer by yarou on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @01:07PM (#11629770)

Arguably, quantum computers can perform supertasks and hypercompute, so I think that there will be widespread adoption in the 2nd or 3rd generation. While Plan 9 itself wasn't popularly used, many great technologies came out of it, like Go.

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Re:IBM Wants Everyone to Try a Quantum Computer by pasquinelli on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @01:18PM (#11629872)

i'm curious to know what the argument is for quantum computers doing supertasks.

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