A new watermark in miniturization...

[Truckman]

LINK...

That might make it possible to factor large numbers more quickly than with conventional machines — thereby undermining modern data-scrambling systems that are the basis of electronic commerce and data privacy. Quantum computers might also make it possible to simulate molecular structures with great speed, an advance that holds promise for designing new drugs and other kinds of materials.

If you think the hackers are a problem now, wait until they get their hands on these babies......Ben

[Billy_Rightwing]

Anyone remember back in the dos 5 days when your computer had maybe 80 megs of hard drive and 2 megs memory, cost a weeks pay and needed a hand crank? The word quantum would be a huh. This was late 70's and early 80's not that long ago.

[Truckman]

Anyone remember back in the dos 5 days when your computer had maybe 80 megs of hard drive and 2 megs memory, cost a weeks pay and needed a hand crank? The word quantum would be a huh. This was late 70's and early 80's not that long ago.

I was working on computer controlled ignition and fuel injection equipped cars in the mid-seventies...That technology made huge leaps before I changed careers in '97...I imagine in the future, you'll just plug your smart phone in the ignition and tell it to wake you up when you get there......Ben

[SBA]

...I imagine in the future, you'll just plug your smart phone in the ignition and tell it to wake you up when you get there......Ben

According to Lefty, you is doing that now