My brother Stephen (no, not the writer), who works for Hewlett-Packard doing stuff with technology sufficiently advanced that it’s indistinguishable from magic, sent a link to this EE Times article about a breakthrough on the road to quantum computing.

Sez Stephen: “Here is an interesting article about how close quantum computing is getting. If you didn’t know, the industry is already working in the nanotechnology range…some of the chips we are currently designing are in the nanotechnology realm, but not yet the quantum computing realm.”

Do you know how to tap into quantum dots for optical communications? I didn’t think so. Abracadabra.