Will the QC kill the PC? Are the new tlds technology with a "use by date"?

[Sir Regalot]

The new tlds could be like a plan to build a better propellor biplane when jet aircraft are just around the corner.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/ma...rid=&xml=/earth/2008/07/01/scicomputer101.xml

"I used to say that quantum computers would be built in several decades," he said, "but now I think it will be more like years."

"..some scientists have estimated that even a very simple 30-qubit computer would be around 1,000 times faster than most desktop PCs."


"Information would no longer need to be carefully logged in structured databases in order to be easily found, as it does now. Instead of searching the internet for key words attached to images and video - which is how YouTube or Google work - quantum computers would be able to search for the images and video themselves."

 

[Mike]

THE QC EFFECT

• Typical personal computers calculate 64 bits of data at a time. A 64- qubit quantum computer would be about 18 billion billion times faster.
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Sign me up! I want one! Just one question; just like in the beginnings of the PC, will i have to build a house around the QC?


M.

 

[kriss05]

THE QC EFFECT

Sign me up! I want one! Just one question; just like in the beginnings of the PC, will i have to build a house around the QC?

No, such computers ideally will have sizes that are thousands times more compact.