Ada Lovelace Day - being a woman in a quantum world preparing for lift off
Quantum computers may be at least five years away from "commercial usefulness" but anticipation that a breakthrough could be imminent is growing within the sector.
Although people have been proclaiming the technology will take off within five to 10 years for the last 30, David Mooter, Principal Analyst at research and advisory firm Forrester, believes the "scientific theory" is now "largely proven". This means the industry has "moved on to solving engineering problems".
The hope here is to create a stable machine with error rates low enough to make the technology commercially viable using techniques, such as quantum error correction (QEC). Between 2030-2034, Mooter expects to see "error correction good enough for early uses cases" and some limited commercial applications. He explains:
I wouldn't be surprised if we see a commercially useful use case within five years. We may see narrow market value before that in areas like quantum chemistry...
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