A company in Canada(www.dwavesys.com) has demonstrated a successful quantum computer. Alan Turing's Universal Turing Machine has been disproved by the latest advancement of computers in the last two decades. Now with the demonstration by D-Wave Systems, the possibilities are endless for applications of QCs in which computation is based on states called qubits, which is a unique quantum state. The biggest challenge has been quantum hardware which has been a emerging field. D-Wave Systems seems to have broken the ice and have pioneered the first successful quantum computer. The prediction that quantum computers will emerge as the superior computational devices at the very least, and perhaps one day make today's modern computer obsolete is practically true now.
Quantum computation has its origins in highly specialized fields of theoretical physics, but its future undoubtedly lies in the profound effect it will have on the lives of all mankind.
I wonder if the renowned computer manufacturers like HP, IBM etc are working on these and what effects will it have on software(Is Google doing something here?).
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