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Quantum computing. The nuclear fusion of computers. I wonder how long they will be 10 years away.
Quantum computing is nothing like fusion, it's been working for 20 years, just at smaller scales.
A better comparison would be graphene. Graphene exists, we can make it, just not much of it. It won't change everything until we can mass produce it.
Fusion just plain doesn't work (for generating energy) in practice yet.
I would say it's almost exactly like fusion then.
It's been working for a number of years, just at small scales. Quantum computing has been a thing for a number of years now, just at very small scales. And as you've said, graphene has been around too! Just at very small scale.