{"id":1642,"date":"2007-10-10T08:38:12","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T15:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2007-10-10T08:38:12","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T15:38:12","slug":"npr-tunnels-into-future-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/10\/10\/npr-tunnels-into-future-state\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR Tunnels into Future State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nextquant.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/09\/nobel-prize-in-physics-2007\/\">nextquant Blog<\/a> points to one of the most ill phrased <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=15127340\">NPR story titles<\/a> of all time:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nQuantum Computer Discovery Nets Nobel Prize<br \/>\n by Richard Harris<br \/>\nAll Things Considered, October 9, 2007 \u00b7 Two scientists will share this year&#8217;s Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries that have revolutionized computer memory.<br \/>\nAlbert Fert of France and Peter Grunberg of Germany independently discovered a phenomenon that relies on the spooky world of quantum mechanics to read data from computer disks.<br \/>\nMost computers use it, because it allows manufacturers to pack a lot more data on a single hard drive. It also changed the way scientists and engineers have been thinking about computer memory.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Crap, if I knew that all I had to do was use my hard drive reading head to build a quantum computer I would have done that years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>nextquant Blog points to one of the most ill phrased NPR story titles of all time: Quantum Computer Discovery Nets Nobel Prize by Richard Harris All Things Considered, October 9, 2007 \u00b7 Two scientists will share this year&#8217;s Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries that have revolutionized computer memory. Albert Fert of France and Peter &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/10\/10\/npr-tunnels-into-future-state\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NPR Tunnels into Future State&#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":[20,30,53,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-funny-ha-ha","category-physics","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\/1642","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=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}