Bullshit.
this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2026
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Call me if they create a basic calculator.
Wake me when they make the contemporary analog to the Apple 2e. Otherwise, this just sounds like a bunch of giant corporations that continue peacocking around in an effort to get VC money.
I applaud the scientists, however, who do this kind of stuff for the love of discovery. Good luck to all of them.
With the "vision" of current corporations... that won't happen.
So, around 1947. Took about 14 years to get to being able to put into chips. So another decade and a half?
Edit: and another 15 to 25 years after that for it to be in consumer households?
From the byline:
Quantum tech is at its transistor moment—promising, real, and powerful, but still years of hard work away from changing the world
So pretty much, yeah.
Well years could be 3 years or 300 years so that doesn't really confirm OP's guess.
Seeing as we now have a multitude of tools available to us that we didn't have in 1947, I imagine it would be faster.
And an already existing consumer base with expectations that were only for hobbyists before...maybe that's a bad thing, because it will constrain QC to evolve in ways that it would be better to explore rather than try to fit modern use cases.
science is being slopified