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Are You Prepared When Quantum Computing Becomes Real?
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Perhaps we are at the end of technological progress as we know it. Moore’s law comes to an end.
What appears to result in a slow-down of technological progress might instead result in a disruptive change.
When this disruption happens, you’d better be prepared. If you wait until the change happens, it might be too late. Even if it is not too late to be left behind, you’d certainly miss the first-mover advantage and belong to this shift's winners.
Of course, new technologies pop up every second. You can’t jump on all of them. So, all the more important is to make up your mind.
If you want to decide whether to enter technology, you must first become aware of an impending change. So, in this post, we look at the signs that indicate how quantum computing will disrupt our world.
The power of a digital computer increases linearly with the number of transistors. With a doubling of the number of transistors every two years, we witnessed a squared growth in the past.
With the end of this development in mind, the prospect of solving the upcoming problems, such as fighting climate change, is poor. To reduce our ecological footprint, we need to rethink every piece of our society. Unless we want to give up our prosperity, we need to become dramatically more efficient in dealing with natural resources.
Of course, we could rely on our savvy semiconductor producers to fix the technological slow-down somehow. But not even the resurrection of Moore’s law is sufficient to solve the urgent problems.
Let’s take the simulation of molecules, for instance. Knowing how they behave would allow us to forgo experiments. It is said to speed up material development significantly. But the simulation of any molecule of interest is intractable because the complexity of simulating a molecule increases exponentially with the number of its atoms.
