Gideon Lichfield
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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And he said, I don't like the word and I don't like the implications.
Supremacy is this really politically loaded word.
It has bad undertones and we shouldn't be using it.
I mean, the first Wright Brothers airplane didn't go very far and the Wright Brothers themselves didn't even get very far in commercial airplane building themselves, but they proved the concept.
And I think it's still in some ways too early to say.
So, you know, since Google announced quantum supremacy in 2019, both companies and several other companies have continued to build and advance quantum computers.
Each one has its own methodology.
Each one has its own technologies.
They're all building computers that are likely to be better at some things than others going in their own ways.
Ultimately, I think it's true that quantum supremacy mattered as a kind of a marker, a symbol.
But what is really going to matter in the coming years is practical.
How much more useful is a quantum computer than a classical computer at a certain given task?
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