I’ve been watching this space since Google first claimed they’d achieved quantum supremacy back in 2019, and the pattern is always the same: breathless headlines followed by years of disappointment or silent retractions on outlandish claims.
The real story is that quantum computers are still years away from any practical breakthrough that will touch your life. Most of what you hear is inflated by startups desperate for venture capital and media outlets that don’t understand the science. As one analyst put it recently, the majority of people reading headlines come away thinking either that every password on the internet is about to be broken, or that the whole thing is overhyped nonsense. Both extremes are wrong, but the hype is far more dangerous because it distracts us from the real threats -- and the real opportunities...<<<Read More>>>...
