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A Shortcut Through Time : The Path to A Quantum Computer, Paperback / softback Book

A Shortcut Through Time : The Path to A Quantum Computer Paperback / softback

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The newest Pentium chip powering PCs and laptops contains 40 million electronic switches packed onto a piece of silicon about the size of a thumbnail.

Several years from now, if this incredible shrinking continues, a single chip will hold a billion switches, then a trillion.

The logical culmination is a computer in which the switches are so tiny that each consists of an individual atom. At that point something miraculous happens: quantum mechanics kick in.

Anyone who follows the science news or watches 'Star Trek' has at least a notion of what that means: particles can be in two or more places at once.

Atoms obey a peculiar logic of their own - and if it can be harnessed society will be transformed. Problems that would now take forever would be solved almost instantly.

Quantum computing promises nothing less than a shortcut through time.

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