The columnist might be a big fan of technology but, sometimes, he thinks it might be nice if things slowed down a little bit. Or is that age making itself known?
Google made big news this week with it’s new quantum computing chip, Willow.
Willow is capable of performing computations in under five minutes that would take a supercomputer 10 septillion years to do. To put that in perspective, our universe is 13.8 billion years old (as far as we know). Which means 10 septillion years is vastly longer than the age of the universe. I have no idea what calculations Google gave it’s quantum chip but having maths that would take the entire time of existence to do done in five minutes seems like a win.
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