Creation of quantum startups suggests game-changing tech
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Building useful quantum computers ‘in our direct line of sight’ — Harvard GazetteResearchers say creation of startups suggests game-changing tech may be developing at faster pace than expected.Mihir Bhaskar was a self-described “total nerd” in high school. He volunteered at a computer history museum and became obsessed with the hardware and how it all came to be: from abacuses to punch cards, vacuum tubes to personal computers.“I have never seen a science that is so ‘blue sky’ go out into the commercial sphere so quickly,” said Evelyn Hu, Tarr-Coyne Professor of Applied Physics and of Electrical Engineering. “Where are we now compared to where we thought we’d be in 2018? We are so much farther ahead than I think any of us could have imagined.”