{"id":2053,"date":"2014-11-14T09:46:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T14:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2017-01-12T16:28:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T21:28:13","slug":"die-quantencomputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=2053","title":{"rendered":"Der Quantencomputer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who read German (I don&#8217;t) might\u00a0enjoy a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/wissenschaft\/physik\/was-man-von-quantencomputern-erwarten-darf-und-was-nicht-1.18422829\">joint interview of me and Seth Lloyd about quantum computing<\/a>, which was conducted in Seth&#8217;s office by the journalist Christian Meier, and published in the Swiss newspaper <em>Neue Z\u00fcrcher Zeitung<\/em>. \u00a0Even if you don&#8217;t read German, <a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?sl=de&amp;tl=en&amp;js=y&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nzz.ch%2Fwissenschaft%2Fphysik%2Fwas-man-von-quantencomputern-erwarten-darf-und-was-nicht-1.18422829&amp;edit-text=\">you can just feed the interview into Google Translate<\/a>, like I did. \u00a0While the interview covers ground that will be forehead-bangingly familiar to regular readers of this blog, I&#8217;m happy with how it\u00a0turned out; even the slightly-garbled Google Translate output is much better than most quantum computing articles in the English-language press. \u00a0(And while Christian hoped to provoke spirited debate between me and Seth by interviewing us together, we surprised ourselves by finding very little that we actually disagreed about.) \u00a0I noticed\u00a0only\u00a0one error, when I&#8217;m quoted talking about &#8220;the discovery of the transistor in the 1960s.&#8221; \u00a0I might have said something about the widespread commercialization of transistors (and integrated circuits) in the 1960s, but I know full well that the transistor was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transistor#History\">invented<\/a> at Bell Labs in 1947.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who read German (I don&#8217;t) might\u00a0enjoy a joint interview of me and Seth Lloyd about quantum computing, which was conducted in Seth&#8217;s office by the journalist Christian Meier, and published in the Swiss newspaper Neue Z\u00fcrcher Zeitung. \u00a0Even if you don&#8217;t read German, you can just feed the interview into Google Translate, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complexity","category-quantum","category-speaking-truth-to-parallelism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2055,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions\/2055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}