How To Explain Quantum to Your Classical Friends

1. Moore’s Law is Running out of Gas.

2. Big Data Needs Big Brains.

3. There are some very important problems that can never be solved using classical computing, but could be solved using quantum computing.

4. The secret to quantum computing lies in leveraging the quantum mechanical principles of superposition and entanglement.

5. There are multiple technical approaches being developed, but we don’t know yet which ones will win out.

6. Decoherence is the enemy of quantum computing.

7. Quantum computers may not be fully deterministic, but that is OK.

8. Quantum computing is complementary to classical computing; it will never replace it.

9. Quantum computing is in a similar state of maturity to classical computers in the 1950’s.

10. There is already a related $30 billion market for devices that use quantum mechanical principles.   The devices are flash memory and they are based upon quantum tunneling.