How to build a quantum computer

Technologists in this New York Times article explain how building new kinds of hardware, working with atoms, is a far more difficult task then past software technology development.

“When we hear about a new technology, it takes less than 10 minutes for our brains to imagine what it can do. We instantly compress all of the compounding infrastructure and innovation needed to get to that point,” Levie said. “That is the cognitive dissonance we are dealing with.”