Do U feel that quantum computers will be a future reality and if so how will it change our existence ( as the internet did in the last decade ).
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Right now, quantum computing is about where electronic computers were in the early 40s, as far as development of the technology towards a general purpose computer.  Research mostly limited to designing logic gates with sufficient accuracy, developing possible substrates to implement the gates on, and, at best, a few simple calculations done on devices specially built for the task which are not otherwise programmable.   But, it certainly looks to be possible to build a general purpose quantum computer.  It'll probably be a couple decades before such a thing is easily built and starts to become a common device that universities and companies might have.  It'll be longer still before it's something you might have at home.  \n\nSo, the first use will be in scientific computation, and the effect on daily life will only be indirect.  One issue that will be important is that it'll make it easy to break any known encryption.  Once this is widely available, encryption for security will have to be much more robust than it currently is.  Beyond this, we'll see new and interesting insight into complex scientific ideas that are computationally difficult, like quantum chemistry, analysis of protein folding, weather modeling, groundwater behaviour, and so on.  Out of this may come advanced material designs, a better understanding of pharmaceuticals and genetics, and a number of other useful advances which will indirectly change things, but the existence of quantum computers for research won't change daily life much more than the existence of large mainframes at universities changed life for people in the 60s.  \n\nIt all depends on how fast they become ubiquitous.  If they remain large cumbersome devices that require special environmental regulation, like being cooled to very low temperatures as the proposed nonabelian anyonic topological quantum computers require, they might not change daily life much, even though they'll change scientific research and database operations for large companies and governments, but if they can be made into a small, portable, and inexpensive device fairly easily, things could be very different.
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still waiting on it, but personally i think the next invention ( be it what ever it may be ) will further insulate society from one another like the current state of connectivity does right now. interesting isn't he, he we are on this board posting replies, when we could be outside... connecting.. with people.. and not text..
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not yet........ may be some day, in the coming century..lol
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If this main difference will get distroyed then it will lead to a new invention,, it will change the feelings in humans for computers and will lead to many new inventions.
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Yep..\n\n\nnot all things are possible in real life...\ncertain things are possible only in Imagination...\nand Internet gives us a chance to live out that Imagination.....\n\nbut, i m strictly against the misuse of this advantage offered by the Internet.......
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neo_maxi_zoon_dweeby is ridiculously optimistic on the matter (although I give props to a well-taken name from John Bender's reference to Brian Johnson).  Remember where Back to the Future Part II thinks we're supposed to be in 2015?  Or where 2001 thought we'd be in 2001?  Goodness, people don't realize that technology will advance greatly, but never in the ways we dream.  Most of our technological advances since Back to the Future Part II was made in 1989 have been in the ability to download porn at high speed to a hand-held plasma screen.
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I really don't think it will go that far, living oon the internet, there would be security risks. You would be more likely to find some kind of programme that would simulate it but i don't know, the idea of being data stored on a harddrive being transfered through out the world doesn't sound to great. your TRON like utopia is far from completion. \n\nThe whole concept of using glasses, and other equipment is doesn't grab me. I would prefer if virtual reality started moving more towards Star Treks' Holodeck type virtual reality, but it might be a bit difficult to reproduce the look and feel of, say an apple or physical human beings, in such an enviroment. There most likely would be some kind of suit you would need to wear, that would send signals to your brain so that you thought you were holding an apple.\n\n\nI think it's best we get on with our lives and let the scientists worry about how far they can go. When the time is right we will have earned millions so we can retire and live our VR dreams.
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Nanotech is currently in existence, and being used commercially in special (and expensive) products such as memory cloth (capable of holding its shape when an electical current, such as bioelectromagnetic fields, passes through it. The normal looking synthetic cloth becomes strong and stiff as aluminium to a preprogrammed shape (exactly like what was seen in the hollywood blockbuster Batman Begins).\nTechnology in this area has limitless potential for growth, and as human understanding of the little pieces that make up everything improves, everything we use will become smaller and more useful. Are there littler pieces that make up the strings that Super String Theory has come to understand are the building blocks of thought and feeling? can those smaller pieces be used to control energy itself in order to literally control the fabric of existence? or make objects disappear into the space that makes up 99.9recurring percent of the size of matter? These things are well and truly feasable. Turning worthless metals into gold or diamond is ancient alchemical technology, developed and used over 4000 years ago. I think we can aim higher than that.\nIn the future, assembly lines will not be neccessary, as the nanobites will be programmed to repair, rebuild and replace themselves and each other, in-situ, as necessary, with the use of artificial intelligence programming.
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A quantum computer is any device for computation that makes direct use of distinctively quantum mechanical phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement, to perform operations on data. In a classical (or conventional) computer, the amount of data is measured by bits; in a quantum computer, it is measured by qubits. The basic principle of quantum computation is that the quantum properties of particles can be used to represent and structure data, and that quantum mechanisms can be devised and built to perform operations with this data. Quantum computers use the principle of electron entanglement and use the 32 quantum states of the electron to perform calculations. If a successful quantum computer could be constructed, it would be millions of times more powerful than any computer today.\n\nQuantum information science concerns information science that depends on quantum effects in physics. It includes theoretical issues in computational models as well as more experimental topics in quantum physics including what can and cannot be done with quantum information. Quantum computing is a subfield of quantum information science
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i dunno but try this movie called "what the bleep do we know" which talks about quantum physics and spirituality. the title is as is. its a gereat way to ;learn why and how we connect to reality based on mental programming. there is aslo a group of commentators who are authors and have wrottem boks about the mind and will power. try "Your Mystical mind" or "The Mystical Mind." hope it helps.
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there already are hover cars (just not yet in production).\nas for teleportation, i suppose it is not yet possible. think about it, existence is like a 4 dimensional coordinate system where the 3 dimensions (x,y,z) are dependent on the 4th coordinate, which is time. Right now, if we follow this 4d coordinate system, the whole function of existence would be continuous. The introduction of teleportation in this scenarion would cause the function of existence to be discontinuous, which would be very hard to explain. Put simply, it is really hard to drastically change the (x,y,z) coordinates as the time it takes for the change approaches zero (teleportation).
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Events that we think will happen in the future?
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Technology gets better and better all the time. In 20 years, there could be more advanced computers and maybe a new source of fuel for cars. It is hard to say what will happen in 20 years.
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As regards future usefulness it is hard to beat Computing.\n\nBest of luck !
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Yes, the techonological advances are going to be mind blowing by the end of the decade computers will be 1000 faster than they are today.
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geez, that would be awesome.  hey with technology the way it is now who knows...it could happen.
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I think that with the advances in science that happen everyday, there are endless possibilities on the things science can engineer. So maybe it could be possible, maybe not. I don't think anything like that could happen in our lifetime or anytime shorter than a few hundred years. And what his powers could be are dependent on how advanced science has become by that time. I don't think psychic powers could be developed but who knows? As for physics getting in the way I think that would be the one thing that would depend on how advanced science is.