Quantum computer get real
Jonathan A. Jones · Physics World · 2002
Quantum mechanics is an extremely successful theory, but also a troubling one. For many years progress was made by concentrating on the obvious applications, and not worrying too much about the counterintuitive world view that quantum mechanics implies. More recently, however, the development of quantum-information theory has reversed this approach. If we take seriously what quantum mechanics seems to be telling us about the world, we can use this “quantum weirdness” to do apparently impossible things (see Physics World March 1998 pp33–57).