Quantum Computing: The Next AI Boom?
For the last few years, artificial intelligence has been the technological equivalent of a rock star trashing a hotel room. Every headline, every investor pitch deck, every earnings call, and every LinkedIn guru with a ring light has been screaming about AI. AI is everywhere. AI writes emails. AI generates images. AI creates videos. AI summarizes meetings nobody wanted to attend in the first place. AI can apparently do everything except convince your printer to work on the first try. But while everyone is busy worshiping at the altar of artificial intelligence, another technology is quietly lurking in the background like a mysterious figure in a science fiction movie. Quantum computing. And every time I hear someone describe quantum computing, I get the same feeling I got during the early days of AI. Half the people discussing it don't understand it. The other half pretend they do. Meanwhile, billions of dollars are being poured into it because nobody wants to be the pe...
