Why the Billionaire Pritzkers Got Obsessed With Quantum – Wall Street Journal

How did two of the billionaire heirs to the Hyatt hotel fortune turned politicians get obsessed with a technology so complex that even the tech-savviest struggle to comprehend it? A little bit of hometown pride and a lot of optimism.
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Frank Miller
1 year ago

“Quantum mechanics is the possibility that you can consider superpositions of states. That’s really all there is to it,” he said. “And I’d argue that superpositions of states are not real.” – Gerard ’t Hooft – Nobel Laureate Says Quantum Mechanics Is On The Wrong Track

Frank Miller
1 year ago
Reply to  Mark Glennon

The same language was being used in the race for 5G, then the phone repair techs exposed there were no 5G chips in the phones. Many nations believed in the concept of virus theory and poured big bucks into it as well. Quantum computing appears to be just another grift, to prop up the stock market and make money as insiders. It’s a big club …

Call my shrink
1 year ago

Maybe they should look into insider trading ? Oh and monitor Duckworth and Durbin as well. Just saying

Marko
1 year ago

Penny is the one who inherited grandpa’s brains in the family. They are not wrong on Quantum but more than likely the tech companies will use up the free tax payer money and the profits will flow back to CA or wherever they HQ’d, it wont be here.

David F
1 year ago

Better start building the nuke plant that’s needed there now.

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