 The quantum information revolution has prompted several physicists and philosophers to claim that new insights can be gained from the rising new science into conceptual problems in the foundations of quantum mechanics (see, e.g., Bub (2016), Chiribella and Spekkens (2016); for responses and commentaries, see, e.g., Myrvold (2010), Timpson (2013), Felline (2016), Cuffaro (forthcoming), Duwell (forthcoming), Felline (forthcoming-a), Henderson (forthcoming), Koberinski and Müller (2018)). Yet while one of the most famous foundational problems in quantum mechanics, namely  the quantum measurement problem,  remains unsolved even within quantum information theory (see Hagar  (2003), Hagar and Hemmo (2006), and Felline (forthcoming-b) for a  critique of the quantum information theoretic approach to the  foundations of quantum mechanics and the role of the quantum  measurement problem in this context), some quantum information  theorists dismiss it as a philosophical quibble (Fuchs 2002). Indeed,  in quantum information theory the concept of  “measurement” is taken as a primitive, a “black  box” which remains unanalysed. The measurement problem itself,  furthermore, is regarded as a misunderstanding of quantum theory. But  recent advances in the realisation of a large scale quantum computer  may eventually prove quantum information theorists wrong: Rather than  supporting the dismissal of the quantum measurement problem, these  advances may surprisingly lead to its empirical solution.