Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing
Does anyone else feel that quantum computing via the cloud is sort of the penultimate test of the "-aaS" (as a service) model?I mean, quantum computing is something that today seems unlikely to be widely available or achievable in hardware to anyone but a handful of specialists and companies/organizations.I wonder if someday, in the future, people will look back and see that classical computing spread because it was made accessible and ubiquitous, and we did not have the lust for centralization which we seem to now.  I wonder what kind of future this spells for quantum computing - will it continue to spread or will it be limited/stunted by being controlled by only the few?This feels like it has the potential to be the ultimate kind of lock-in.  If the way that the system and the hardware/software is exposed to the world is through cloud services, and the knowledge of how to build/operate/use quantum computers stays locked-in to only the privileged who can afford to have access to and utilize it...Imagine if you started building on quantum computing technology, but then decided you wanted to change.. to what other option!?I'm not trying to be a Luddite here, I think it's pretty amazing you can even access a quantum computer as a service.  But, I am being "that person" who asks the question.. "hmm, where is this going"?