The future as we have it now is quite technologically different from when I started in IT.
Prior to that, I worked in the nuclear physics industry and back in the 60's fusion was a few years off. We still haven't cracked it. By the late 80's we were debating how fast infrared and wireless bandwidth could go. None of my peers believed we'd get beyond that of a wired modem. Bluetooth would look like magic to our former selves. Disappointed that we don't have safe flying cars.. On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 6:40 AM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > A lot of things have happened in my lifetime that seemed like engineering > impossibilities, including things that were deemed impossible. On the flip > side, things that we thought would take only 5 years turned out to be a lot > harder than we thought. My gut feel is that we will eventually see > economically viable quantum computers but that there will be false starts > along the path (pun intended.) > > There are certainly hard limits according to current theory, but the > Planck length is minuscule; we've got a lot of room before we run into it. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי > נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf > of Phil Smith III <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, December 6, 2023 2:28 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: CBS's "60 Minutes": Quantum Computing > > All the big-brain mathematicians/cryptographers I know are extremely > skeptical about quantum computing ever becoming a reality. The problems of > stability are also exponential, and so getting from a few dozen/hundred > qbits to something big enough to be reasonable may be essentially > impossible. > > > > Of course some breakthrough could happen; so could room-temperature > superconductors, anti-gravity, or a cure for cancer. Tomorrow-or never. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
