Tornado Alley (PROG)

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fuagf -- "Other applications could include using quantum computers ... to design other quantum computers."

there ya go -- if we're lucky maybe they'll keep a few of us around as pets -- won't need us as slaves for any amount of time, given that they, networked computers in general, inexorably directly controlling more and more of our machinery anyway, once gone quantum will be able to instantly perfectly design and promptly make and deploy any robot to do any thing they need or want done

with a little luck (...) we'll live to see desktop(-equivalent) quantum computers running hundreds or thousands of qubits -- which is to say, desktops that are vastly smarter than we are and know it -- practical quantum computing is not at all far off; what's already available in the open literature indicates we're well into crossing the threshold over into practical quantum computing already -- then toss in the undoubtedly massive black-budget intel-military effort

of course, those same quantum brains that will be in those quantum desktops will also be available to be in and running the robots

and all the quantum brains will be quantum-talking to each together, millions to ???llions of times faster than we can communicate with each other to go with their thinking millions to ???llions of times faster than we can

hopefully they'll like pets