So if I understand it right this process requires some pretty specialised and delicate equipment... for instance you have to be able to get Helium3 down to something like as cold (compared to us) as the sun is hot. For what I'm asking it doesn't matter if that is technically true... point is you need some pretty fancy technology.
Now it's true that classical computers used to take up whole buildings. Living people remember this. And progress is supposed to be getting faster and faster. But given the particularly arcane constraints... how long if ever before this kind of technology can be a part of the daily lives of most Teran Citizens? Will it ever be possible for us to have it at home? Or will we always have to send out requests to more centralised machines that will then send us back answers?
I don't know whether or not we will have the technology in the future to eliminate the need for such environments. Different kinds of qubits are an active research activity. Ions, dots, diamond vacancies, etc.
The bigger point to realize, I think, is that most people's computing doesn't even happen at their home anymore. Much of it happens on some blade in a server rack. I think, for the time being, quantum computing will be just like that.
It was pretty inconceivable, in my retrospective of computing, to think that vacuum tubes would be miniaturized to fit in little boxes in bedrooms. You really needed the discovery of a IC transistor to let that happen. That hasn't happened yet with qubits, and I don't think one can with any certainty predict it.
Now it's true that classical computers used to take up whole buildings. Living people remember this. And progress is supposed to be getting faster and faster. But given the particularly arcane constraints... how long if ever before this kind of technology can be a part of the daily lives of most Teran Citizens? Will it ever be possible for us to have it at home? Or will we always have to send out requests to more centralised machines that will then send us back answers?