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[News] So who is getting the new Google Quantum?



Hugo Rune

Well-known member
NSC Patreon
Feb 23, 2012
21,500
Brighton
From the Times this morning...

“Google will release the first quantum computer, the Google Quantum, by 2020 it has been announced. The machine will comfortably outperform all current and future binary digital computers and will become the fastest unit ever......however, prices are set to start at around $5,000 which will put this out of reach to most consumers.........one interesting feature that Google are rumoured to have already perfected is a retrospective email function that uses tachyon particles fired down optical fibre that can contain about the same amount of data contained in an SMS. Users will need to install a tachyon receiver to catch the messages but this form of communication could mean that you never forget to put the bins out or forget a loved one’s birthday again as you can remind yourself once you have forgotten.”

$5,000! **** that, awful investment.
 


studio150

Well-known member
Jul 30, 2011
29,555
On the Border
Read this quote earlier, forget who by, but probably sums up the cost benefit of new quantum computers

“Using a quantum computer would be like chartering a jumbo jet to cross the road,”

So it's a no from me
 


Eeyore

Lord Donkey of Queen's Park
NSC Patreon
Apr 5, 2014
23,381
From the Times this morning...

“Google will release the first quantum computer, the Google Quantum, by 2020 it has been announced. The machine will comfortably outperform all current and future binary digital computers and will become the fastest unit ever......however, prices are set to start at around $5,000 which will put this out of reach to most consumers.........one interesting feature that Google are rumoured to have already perfected is a retrospective email function that uses tachyon particles fired down optical fibre that can contain about the same amount of data contained in an SMS. Users will need to install a tachyon receiver to catch the messages but this form of communication could mean that you never forget to put the bins out or forget a loved one’s birthday again as you can remind yourself once you have forgotten.”

$5,000! **** that, awful investment.

It'll be at palatable prices within 18 months.

But no interest here.

It's like modern phones. The ones being produced five years ago are more than adequate for most.
 




Bakero

Languidly clinical
Oct 9, 2010
13,680
Almería
Hmmm. Reads like a pretty crap April Fool’s Day story. No?

This. "retrospective email function that uses tachyon particles fired down optical fibre that can contain about the same amount of data contained in an SMS" ???
 






vegster

Sanity Clause
May 5, 2008
27,867
This. "retrospective email function that uses tachyon particles fired down optical fibre that can contain about the same amount of data contained in an SMS" ???

I'm holding out and waiting for an R2-D2 .
 



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