Top 10 breakthrough technologies in 2017
Practical Quantum Computers
Big companies such as Google and Intel and some research groups have taken a leading role in practical quantum computer research and application. The advances they have made indicate that computers will have more previously unimaginable functions.
Availability: 4-5 years
A small green transparent crystal grown by Novosibirsk scientists using fundamentally new technologies holds more information than one million CDs. It is thought that futuristic quantum computers - the most powerful computing device - will be built on the base of such crystals. [Photo/VCG] |