WereKitten on 26 May 2010
| Khuutra said: Where the Hell do we go from there? Quantum computers? |
Yes and no. Actually quantum computation works in a totally different way from the classic one, right from the theoric level (how algorithms are written, how ideal computers work) down to the practical implementation in hardware of those theoretical results.
As such, while there's a lot of research on the proper way to ride that quantum tiger, classic computing must be kept classic, even as we get to length scales where the quantum effects become more and more evident.
It's an interesting conundrum.
