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Originally Posted by Rod66
Gosh that's interesting stuff. As an IT person, I'm looking forward to the next 20 years. We're going to see the replacement of the 50 year old solid state resistor with something far more exotic and hence far more powerful. I would liken the potential leap here similar to the change from valves to resistors and hence integrated circuits. Lets hope it doesn't lead down a blind alley...
Rod
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As an IT person, you'd mean transistors Rod...
I think that the gap here is so far beyond transitioning from valve technology through to transistors/ICs that it's not funny. This isn't an evolution in technology - it's a revolution. It'd be like saying that there was a big difference from the Model T to a Ferrari F430 when they're really the same thing, just refined over time! This quantum computing is so completely removed from what computing is now - it operates under a totally different principle. It's not just an update of the electronics we're talking about. The only similarity (I'm assuming) is that information still goes in one end and different information comes out the other...