| Sqrl said: Trust me as a computer electronics engineering student I've run across it dozens of times, but there really isn't any use in trying to fight the minor semantic error, especially when its used in a more muindane conversation and still gets the idea across just as well. Also, multi-level circuits are already in use, although not widespread use. There have also been several attempts to rethink the binary approach to computing, and I'm sure most people are aware of the attempts to get a quantum computer working which has had some surprising results already.
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Agreed.
Regarding Quantum Computing, its importance tends to be overstated. As far as current knowledge goes, QC is just a way to get fast solutions to some particular problems like searching/inverting a function, or hard problems like factoring. It is not a general way to get exponential speedups on every computational problem. As far as current knowledge goes, a Quantum Computer could be used as a co-processor for some applications, not as a replacement of traditional computing.
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