Once again, that is out. White males are in.

At least ones who bother to keep up with current events.

Obviously, you have been living under a rock for the last 9 months.

In my day, the whole world was an "analog bag".

Mainly because my parents were too cheap to buy me the TRS-80 I kept harping about.

Despite impressive results, submarines cannot swim.

Willow can mutually entangle 105 qubits; this is not like IBM's Condor with 1121 qubits where it is suspected only a dozen or two qubits can be mutually entangled.

The internal state of 105 mutually entangled qubits corresponds to 2^105 * 2 (for phase & amplitude) * 3 (bits per analog value, akin to SSD TLC) = 3 * 10^31 bytes = 30,000,000 yottabytes.

Notice that I said "internal state". Reading those values out is the challenge, usually involving re-running the same program over and over to get a probability distribution. Once you measure, all the quantum states collapse.

100 Big corporation publishes paper claiming to finally achieve quantum supremacy
200 Wait a few days
300 Some random math guy demonstrates how to calculate the same thing faster on a conventional consumer laptop
400 GOTO 100

I too, call for a ban on time travel.

This 2021 paper cites a 2016 source for:

"these tasks are overwhelmingly likely to be automated over time, performed by selfdriving cars and drones"

On the flip side, one reason I'm sticking with my old cars and not considering buying a new one any time soon is because I really like the fact that they lack connectivity of any kind. They also have real control knobs and no touch screens.

Folger's Crystals already did this experiment this back in the 1980s. Then they publicized the results ad nauseam.

No.

This room-temperature ice is simply a plot device that demonstrates the sheer stupidity of human behavior.

If you set up a market, and multiple people who actually had $1e100 put in a bid of that amount for your stupid crypto, then at least for that instant it was worth that much. It may not be worth that much later, but it would be NOW.

FFS, how can you have such a hard time understanding such a basic concept?

Luckily for the Chinese, they're allegedly communists.

"From each according to his ability" - that would be the robots.

"To each according to his need" - those millions of people.

We'll see whether it pans out.

By definition, what things sell for now is what they are worth now.