Quantum Winter

I hadn't paid a hell of a lot of attention to developments in quantum computing. Quite honestly, most of the articles made my eyes either roll or glaze over, I'd gotten to the "so build it, already" stage some years ago.

This video gives a good explaination of why nobody's built one, already, at least one that is scaled up enough to be useful.

Liklely this is one avenue of research that will simply fizzle out as the money dries up, to be resurrected in a century or two when some of the problems have been solved in other areas and computing infrastructure has changed. Until then, it will reside on one of those "interesting but not scalable/useful" shelves for abandoned research lines in universities, to be rediscovered by a grad student desperate for a dissertation topic.

I liked "That just means they had too much money to begin with."