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		noiv on June 13, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Which tech giants will still be around after 100 y... "The hardware is only a tiny piece of the puzzle of quantum computing. Algorithms for QC are rare, hard to develop, and the field is in its absolute infancy." Is that the description of computer technology as of 1911?

groby_b on June 13, 2011 [–]

More ca. 1930 - precursors of the Church-Turing thesis showing up. And if anybody then had predicted that "one patent on computers, and IBM is out of business", they would've been wrong too.

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