The quantum computing bubble
This is how I think about it.<p>It&#x27;s insurance money. If you&#x27;re a manager of a big company like IBM, Microsoft or Google, you have to align your current product portfolio and <i>future</i> portfolio in such a way that shows your investor that your company will keep growing, even if your current products are stagnant.<p>You can surely say Quantum computing won&#x27;t do much in next 5 years. But what about 10 years? 20 years? 30 years? The farther you look into the future, the bigger the probability of having a huge tech breakthrough that could give the company who has it a massive edge on the market.<p>Even if you have a chance of 1% of having a sort of transistor revolution from QC, it becomes a race to the bottom. If Google starts researching it, IBM will follow suit, and so will Microsoft. If in 30 years this turns out to be a big deal, no one will be 30 years behind.