So, around 1947. Took about 14 years to get to being able to put into chips. So another decade and a half?

Edit: and another 15 to 25 years after that for it to be in consumer households?

Wake me when they make the contemporary analog to the Apple 2e. Otherwise, this just sounds like a bunch of giant corporations that continue peacocking around in an effort to get VC money.

I applaud the scientists, however, who do this kind of stuff for the love of discovery. Good luck to all of them.

So the thing with useful quantum computers is that if they ever do make it actually work and manage to scale it up, the first thing they will do is render most modern encryption obsolete over night. My guess is that Bluffdale has a mountain of encrypted data they'd start cracking immediately.

My cynicism can't allow me to think that we'd hear about it until years after that backlog is cleared and the NSA (and now by extension Israel and Russia) have backdoored any network of interested 10 times over.

The far more likely scenario is that this like stable/cold-ish Fusion, practical graphene, CRiSPER miracle cures are still way more theory than driveable cars at this point and for next several years at least. These folks just want more money and have to keep claiming they are close to get it.

Any day now!

Any day now, for the past 30 years or so.

Well? We're waiting!

The intellectual elite always dangling that carrot (of hope) from a stick (of almost there).

Bullshit.

Ill believe it when I see it.

science is being slopified

To compare how far each platform has advanced across computing, simulation, networking, and sensing, the researchers used large language AI models such as ChatGPT and Gemini to estimate technology-readiness levels (TRL).

They asked ChatGPT? That's the paper?

takes slow, deep breath Bullshit.