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Why was so much spent on quantum computers before they even existed?

21 Aug 2023 Robert P Crease

Robert P Crease finds out from Susannah Glickman why people ploughed so much money into quantum computers before the technology had even been properly developed

Piles of money
Money for nothing Why was so much invested in quantum computers before they even existed? (Courtesy: iStock/ipopba)
“What a relief,” said Susannah Glickman. A PhD student at Columbia University in New York, she h

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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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