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Quantum Computing Is Dead. Long Live Quantum Computing!


Schrödinger’s cat is alive and dead at the same time. Ironically enough, so is quantum computing.

But no amount of pomp and hype can make something true. Nearly a century ago, Erwin Schrödinger poked fun at quantum principles by comparing them to a cat that’s both alive and dead. Today, quantum computing finds itself in just such a state: a superposition of here and not-here, a series of world-changing breakthroughs that are, at the same time, also colossal letdowns.

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