A Cryptography Engineer's Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines

Re:A Cryptography Engineer's Perspective on Quantum Computin... by rcxdude on Monday April 06, 2026 @07:32PM (#47668802)

The Manhattan project had a huge impact but it was not that big as far as efforts in the war went (they managed to hide the budget allocated to the project from most of congress, for example).

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Re:A Cryptography Engineer's Perspective on Quantum Computin... by brohee on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @01:46AM (#47671149)

Yeah and some of the figures often quoted like consuming 14% of the electricity produced in the US are wrong, it was below 1%. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011APS..APRH13004R/abstra...

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Re:A Cryptography Engineer's Perspective on Quantum Computin... by bitexploder on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @08:56AM (#47674596)

It was like 0.5% GDP. It wasn’t insane, but still, you are right.

It was very focused. What do we get out of the F-35 program? By comparison, it has eaten (projected total lifetime cost) 2 trillion dollars. It is 4.5% of the GDP. I had no idea. This is just a military and government contractor subsidy. What are we doing…

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Re:A Cryptography Engineer's Perspective on Quantum Computin... by fluoridation on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @11:00AM (#47676466)

That's $ 2 trillion over the course of 20 years, so by your own numbers 0.23% of GDP.

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