PC Magazine - USA (2020-11)

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f you’re reading the PCMag Digital Edition,

you’ve likely got a pretty good grasp on how

computers work: bits, bytes, hardware,

software, input, output. No big deal; we’ve been

living with personal computers for decades now.

Well, make that “classical” computers, because

there’s a new tech in town: quantum computing.

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so used to.

We knew going in that researching and reporting

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most humans to understand. Google the term, and

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a bunch of those, one gets the feeling a lot of the

writers don’t understand the topic much better

than their readers do.

Our writer, PCMag senior hardware analyst Tom

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computing works in our cover story anyway—

because before we dove into the current state of

the technology, we wanted to make sure readers

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(from my totally unbiased viewpoint). Qubits,

superposition, entanglement, defying the laws of

physics—it’s all there.

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including the people doing the research that’s

making quantum computing a reality. He heard a

lot about where the technology is heading and how

The

Future of

Computing

CAROL MANGIS

FIRST WORD