{"id":1067,"date":"2005-09-18T04:18:31","date_gmt":"2005-09-18T11:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2005-09-18T04:18:31","modified_gmt":"2005-09-18T11:18:31","slug":"optimistic-deutsch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/09\/18\/optimistic-deutsch\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimistic Deutsch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Deutsch thinks quantum computing is just around the corner.  He has posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daviddeutsch.org.uk\/\">the following<\/a> on his blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nFor a long time my standard answer to the question \u2018how long will it be before the first universal quantum computer is built?\u2019 was &#8216;several decades at least\u2019. In fact, I have been saying this for almost exactly two decades \u2026 and now I am pleased to report that recent theoretical advances have caused me to conclude that we are within sight of that goal. It may well be achieved within the next decade.<br \/>\nThe main discovery that has made the difference is <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/quant-ph\/0508218\">cluster quantum computation<\/a>, which is a marvellous new way of structuring quantum computations which makes them far easier to implement physically.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Deutsch thinks quantum computing is just around the corner. He has posted the following on his blog: For a long time my standard answer to the question \u2018how long will it be before the first universal quantum computer is built?\u2019 was &#8216;several decades at least\u2019. In fact, I have been saying this for almost &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/09\/18\/optimistic-deutsch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Optimistic Deutsch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-quantum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}