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they hired one of the world's greatest experts on quantum computing. and like him, i guess they don't believe d-wave, either.
http://www.wired.com/2014/09/martinis/
honestly, if anyone can do it, it's google. they have a ridiculous amount of resources, they have more physicists and engineers and shyt than yale, harvard, mit and a bunch of other top schools combined, they've already done research in the field and they're definitely motivated to get there first. and if they do, it's both awesome and frightening, because it's a big step forward technologically and it's scary that an already powerful, insidious entity that dominates the web (which means it dominates information, personal or otherwise) would have the most powerful computing power ever.
i'm sure we're along ways off before quantum computers come into reality, especially commercially...and some actually believe quantum computers are totally theoretical and or at least, in reality, couldn't out-perform convential computers in the vast majority of tasks.
but, one thing is for sure...we got silicon photonics to look forward to, there are a number of companies (intel especially) that have gone all in and have plans to roll out computers using that technology. we'll probably see some of those machines roll out in the near future. from what i understand though, is that it'll totally turn operating systems on their heads, so they have to develop totally foreign architecture to what we're used to in order to make it work. that would be probably be the biggest challenge...trying to sell a computer with an os that's nothing like windows/linux/osx or anything we've ever seen before is gonna be tough, no matter how fast and energy efficient it'll be.
http://www.wired.com/2014/09/martinis/
honestly, if anyone can do it, it's google. they have a ridiculous amount of resources, they have more physicists and engineers and shyt than yale, harvard, mit and a bunch of other top schools combined, they've already done research in the field and they're definitely motivated to get there first. and if they do, it's both awesome and frightening, because it's a big step forward technologically and it's scary that an already powerful, insidious entity that dominates the web (which means it dominates information, personal or otherwise) would have the most powerful computing power ever.
i'm sure we're along ways off before quantum computers come into reality, especially commercially...and some actually believe quantum computers are totally theoretical and or at least, in reality, couldn't out-perform convential computers in the vast majority of tasks.
but, one thing is for sure...we got silicon photonics to look forward to, there are a number of companies (intel especially) that have gone all in and have plans to roll out computers using that technology. we'll probably see some of those machines roll out in the near future. from what i understand though, is that it'll totally turn operating systems on their heads, so they have to develop totally foreign architecture to what we're used to in order to make it work. that would be probably be the biggest challenge...trying to sell a computer with an os that's nothing like windows/linux/osx or anything we've ever seen before is gonna be tough, no matter how fast and energy efficient it'll be.
