Re:IBM unveils 127-qubit quantum processor
by RivieraKid on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @06:44PM
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Interesting, I think all of those items have a good chance of actually happening ("longevity research" happening means some sort of meaningful progress).
I hope there will be some unexpected breakthroughs too.
Re:IBM unveils 127-qubit quantum processor
by sxv on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @12:57PM
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As someone in their 30s who suffers from baldness and arthritis, two simple conditions yet no promising solutions in sight, I find it cute when people think we can somehow cheat death or aging in the next 300 years.
short term hype (real advances that will happen in 1-2 years, but won't matter by 2030, because they are just a generational iteration)
Over-hyped far-future research. (things where the possibilities have yet to be brought down to earth by the practical limits of implementing them broadly / cost effectively) When these things do happen, they tend to be a bit of a let-down, because they don't actually provide the promised revolutionary changes. These things basically have to be over-hyped in order to get the necessary funding to bring them to reality.
Of the examples you have, I am only really excited about CRISPR, and to a lesser extent commercial spaceflight, and new nuclear. These have promise IMO, but I also don't expect them to be decade defining.
Personally I don't think we know what the next breakthrough will be yet. I expect it to take us very much by surprise, and start out as something unthreatening which then grows to a disruptive size / scale.