News Summary

• Feynman suggested the idea of a quantum computer in a 1982 paper.
• Yuri Manin suggested a similar idea slightly before then which makes the entire idea about 46 years old.
• Empirically, quantum computers are improving at an exponential or even faster than exponential rate for coherence times, number of qubits, and other metrics.
• The algorithmic end also continues to improve rapidly, especially with error correction, and we're just moving into the zone where the error correction and the physical systems are both good enough that we can physically implement quantum logical systems with real error correction.