Pretty interesting stuff. So what would this mean for helping to cure diseases, wouldn't it speed the process up tremendously as well?

It remains to be seen how many atoms can be entangled though. I don't think there has been a proper study on the thermodynamical stability of a large number of entangled atoms.

Personally I think Intel's idea of a graphene photonic processor with channels entangling photons on pairs is a better bet for post-electronic, consumer-grade computing.

From what I understand about quantum computing, it's that it needs to be in an extremely stable environment. Thus, I don't see it being practical in consumer devices.

But does it need to be? With the rise of distributed computing, we can see the benefits of quantum computing before fixing issues such as cost, stability, energy consumption, and heat output.

Entanglement could be exploited for high speed and very low lag communications probably easier than for specialized computing and far easier than for general purpose computing.