Far left. We know it’ll be important, but the only people with any idea why are experts who don’t do hype. Nobody’s out here going “our shoe company needs to be quantum!” because the tech barely exists.

I’m not even sure quantum computing will ever… scratch that. I’m not sure how quantum computing will be desirable on consumer hardware. Presumably some engineer will slap their forehead and sketch out trivial hardware eventually. Every serious computer could have a QPU alongside the FPU and GPU. But I have no idea what you’d actually do with it, as some rando.

Quantum programming is like finding hideous math proofs. Maybe an absolute wizard publishes a brief but impenetrable paper that solves exactly one NP-complete problem, or makes ‘it tries every value at once!’ how things actually work. Otherwise you’d only activate that one square nanometer of silicon when you found a twenty-year-old RAR file and wanted it cracked in your lifetime.