Quote:
Originally Posted by Dudebro
But it sounds like the next big thing we'll all be buying in a few years.
|
I doubt it.
1. It will be hugely expensive - I wouldn't be too shocked if the one Lockheed Martin bought is close to a million dollars.
2. It is enormous. The first one is protected by 10 square meters of dense walls.
3. It won't do much for you. It won't play games or run photoshop any faster or better than your computer.
All it does is compute very large problems very well. Such as finding a cure for cancer, searching for alien life, breaking passwords etc.
Or in the case of Lockheed Martin they will probably use it to design some ultimate weapon or create a Orwellian Big Brother of some sort.
Wikileaks says they have "the digital age equivalent of a thermonuclear device", a file that contains extremely damaging state secrets. They released the file but it was encrypted it in a way that no modern computer could ever crack. They say if something happens to Julian or Wikileaks that they will release the password. If the password is not released then a modern computer would never be able to open the file.
The type of thing that a quantum computer can do that modern computers can not is crack the password to that file.
Most likely the laptop the navy got from Osama is encrypted in a similar way. Without a quantum computer they will not be able to read his files.
Anyways, I bet we cure cancer and know what is in the wikileaks file well before you can buy one at Best Buy. I think it will happen, just not very soon.