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[_] "Whoa, slow down there..."

Raymond Brooks ray at conscious.co.uk
Thu Jan 25 16:56:18 GMT 2007

Peter Church wrote:
>> contains. I think it's awesomely cool. Commercial optical quantum 
>> computers by the time we're sixty? We might just be lucky...
>>     
>
> Great just think of all the _DATA_ whore-housing that governments and
> organisations would perform on us then...
>   
The major problem with processing all that data right now is it's quite 
slow. Quantum makes data processing instantaneous, viz. computers will 
soon work *much* faster than the speed of human thought. So technically, 
they'll know what you're doing before you do. Brilliant!

/me spins off into sci-fantasy