Description: A Shortcut Through Time Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). The Path to A Quantum Computer Author(s): George Johnson Format: Paperback Publisher: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom Imprint: Vintage ISBN-13: 9780099452171, 978-0099452171 Synopsis The newest Pentium chip powering PCs and laptops contains 40 million electronic switches packed onto a piece of silicon about the size of a thumbnail. Several years from now, if this incredible shrinking continues, a single chip will hold a billion switches, then a trillion. The logical culmination is a computer in which the switches are so tiny that each consists of an individual atom. At that point something miraculous happens: quantum mechanics kick in. Anyone who follows the science news or watches 'Star Trek' has at least a notion of what that means: particles can be in two or more places at once. Atoms obey a peculiar logic of their own - and if it can be harnessed society will be transformed. Problems that would now take forever would be solved almost instantly. Quantum computing promises nothing less than a shortcut through time.
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Book Title: A Shortcut Through Time
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: A Shortcut Through Time: the Path to a Quantum Computer
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Year: 2004
Subject: Computer Science, Science
Item Height: 198 mm
Item Weight: 160 g
Type: Textbook
Author: George Johnson
Item Width: 129 mm
Format: Paperback
