Quantum computing?
Let’s start here:
Scientists Just Invented A Whole New Kind of Quantum Computer (Wall Street Pit)
This quote in particular caught my attention:
According to the report, which used the Landauer limit, “computing will not be sustainable by 2040, when the energy required for computing will exceed the estimated world’s energy production.“
The Landauer limit – the energy limit that’s been named after renowned IBM scientist Rolf Landauer – states that “each single bit operation must use an absolute minimum amount of energy.”
— Scientists Just Invented A Whole New Kind of Quantum Computer, Wall Street Pit, September 9, 2017.
What is the Landauer limit?
This is a good introduction in layman’s terms:
Who else is talking about the Landauer limit?
The Future of Computing Depends on Making It Reversible (IEEE Spectrum)
How Life (and Death) Spring from Disorder (Wired)
The unavoidable cost of computation revealed (Nature)
Why does this matter?
