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As there have been many scientific breakthroughs to get to where we are now with smartphones.

Those were a long series of inevitable predictable progress.

This isn’t a matter of ordinary engineering challenges to be overcome. What I’m talking about is something that upends our understanding of reality. Not just an evolution of what we already know, but a revolution that changes almost everything about our understanding of how the universe works.

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Photonic@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

That was a long series of inevitable predictable progress in engineering.

If it was so predictable, why couldn’t anyone in 1926 have predicted it with accuracy? The point is, they couldn’t and so can’t we.

Also, it’s definitely about engineering issues. In fact, scientists are already working on ways to overcome the major obstacles you named.

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- Steve@communick.news ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  The concept of a general computer didn’t exist in 1927. Once it did, yes it was predicted and expected they would get smaller, more powerful, efficient, and common. There was no physics getting in the way of it.
  
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  - Photonic@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Of course, every increment is predictable after you make the scientific breakthrough. Not before, though.
    
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    Steve@communick.news ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    The artificial computer wasn’t so much a scientific breakthrough as a conceptual one. It didn’t require anything that didn’t already exist.
    
    The quantum computer does exist. And it’s functional principles are built on physics not engineering. It’s a fundamentally different situation.
    
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