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What's all this stuff about instantaneous, I'm just not buying that ?!

Nearly, maybe, but instantaneous seems a little like you'd have to
throw relativity out of the window and I don't remember reading that
being the case. Where did all the you physicist web developers go, I
know there's loads of you round dese parts, surely one of you must
have time to quickly run through how quantum computing is supposed to
work.

        Steve

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 11:36:41PM +0000, adam armfield wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> ----------------------------------------
> 
> 
> reminds me of this feature:
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/08/guilty_associations/
> 
>  "How frightened would you be if you were secretly
> planning to get pregnant, without telling your
> husband, and discovered that someone had written to
> him telling him about it? Or, put the other way, how
> would you feel if you discovered your wife was
> pregnant only when someone dropped you a letter?"
> 
> all the best
> 
> adam
> 
> 
> 
> 
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