Hi all,
I am interested to know your thoughts on the *possible* advent of quantum computers and what would that mean, to us as programmers for one thing but also from a user point of view - it is interesting that in this article they suggest that it may well have limited usefulness - fields like code breaking would benefit, which i have read before, and can understand, but in terms of factoring out huge numbers then surely that kind of number crunching power leads to further application? There is also an interesting idea that it would be more like a new graphics card - a hardware add-on to enable quantum computation, rather than replacing the traditional computer wholesale.
"For many questions it's not going to be superior at all. There is simply no point to use a quantum computer to do your word processing."