Trying to keep the science while sounding religious may be good.
The "Invisible hand of selective adaptation" ?

Of course, we don't want to create a new -ism by so doing.
Test and verify is a requirement to any system of "trust".

I am just amazed at the technology that is going into making this new qubit.

First off it is "...built with a highly purified form of silicon" and one qubit requires "... the spins of the 10 billion or so phosphorus ions..."

Now THAT is engineering!

This group has been toying with the idea for ages.

http://www.jpaerospace.com/

I think it is still their plan.

When given the choice between several phone microscopes,
whichever phone makes the simplest microscope is the one to use.

And let the battle for a new standard begin.

I had thought Light Peak was the likely replacement technology.

10Gbps and backward compatible with USB.

"At 10Gb/s, you could transfer a full-length Blu-Ray movie in less than 30 seconds. Optical technology also allows for smaller connectors and longer, thinner, and more flexible cables than currently possible. Light Peak also has the ability to run multiple protocols simultaneously over a single cable, enabling the technology to connect devices such as peripherals, displays, disk drives, docking stations, and more."

http://techresearch.intel.com/articles/None/1813.htm

*hic* Four years of wasted is never drinking!

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