Sankar Das Sarma – a physicist from the University of Maryland – recently wrote at length about why the capabilities of quantum computing are overhyped at the moment. Specifically, he clarifies that quantum computing has evolved nowhere close to the stage required to break the public key cryptography used in popular technologies today – such as Bitcoin.
A Long Way to Go for Quantum Computing
As written in an opinion piece for Technology Review, Sarma suggests that ‘Quantum Computing’ has become the second most overhyped buzzword next to ‘Artificial Intelligence’. Yet despite the substantial investments into quantum R&D from major institutions like Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, it’s unlikely they’ll be able to produce something of use any time soon.
“Established applications for quantum computers do exist,” states Sarma. For example, there’s a theoretical application of Quantum computing for finding the prime factors of large numbers exponentially faster t

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