Technology

Me in high school computers class:

Hey Teach, I get how code logic flows, but if computers are just bunches of transistors and transistors are just switches, how does any of this actually run or work?

You know, I don't actually know, I only ever learned coding...

* 3 years of electrical and computer engineering Later *

Huh, those are the most wildly complicated and impressive things ever built, thank god I finally got a grasp on it.

* 1 year of quantum and optical computing later *

quiet sobbing

The gate here is really cool, I remember from my optical classes all the different ways to encode bits on a photon over fiber, I am curious which properties are more and less suitable for this application.

it could make our current computing technology exponentially more efficient, thus reducing the global power consumption of our data-driven society.

That's a bold lie. Jevons paradox will apply and the first thing that will happen is building more AI data centers and crypto mining.