Ever see a Quantum Computer?
(media.greatawakening.win)
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From what meager reading I've done on these computers, it appears they are incredibly fast but make so many errors that they have no practical use as of yet....
And this is the optimization issue that Quantum computers, at least at this phase of development, are striving for. There are 3 types of Quantum computers (as my limited understanding perceives this) the Quantum Annealer (yes, lots of errors, but so fast that you run it over and over again, so that your answer eventually settles out around the correct or approximate answer. You may run the algorythm a billion times to get an approximation, but its still exponentially faster than running it the "old fashioned" way.
The much more more technologically challenging Quantum Analog model, which should have fewer errors, but good gracious, determining analog models at quantum levels is "tricky".
Then the "Universal Analog" which is something Star Trek would look at as futuristic - or maybe we will be there in a year or two? Our grasp of technology is growing faster than perhaps our wisdom in using the knowledge we have obtained. Just because we can, do we know if we should?