Quantum computing doesn’t make computers a bit faster. It changes what’s possible.
In this short episode, Joe Fitzsimons explains why quantum progress is so hard to grasp. Each additional qubit doubles the difficulty of simulating a system on classical machines, while the size of quantum processors has been scaling faster as industry accelerates development.
Put those together and you get growth that quickly breaks everyday intuition.
Joe grounds it with comparisons: early computers didn’t just speed up arithmetic, they unlocked tasks you could never complete by hand. Quantum computing, he argues, brings the same discombobulating level of impact.
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