[jamesrcole]

> my point is obviously that people imagined we'd have a lot of things now that we still don't have the technology for today. So the fact that we've done amazing things in certain areas doesn't really say anything regarding this particular issue.

And there's plenty of things that people said were impossible that were achieved.

That doesn't tell us anything regarding quantum computing, either.

Looking at what people said about past things is completely irrelevant to the prospects for some particular potential technology. The only way you can try to judge the prospects for that technology is by actually getting into the details of that technology and how it relates to our current understanding of the world.

[throwaway613834]

> And there's plenty of things that people said were impossible that were achieved. That doesn't tell us anything regarding quantum computing, either.

Exactly. That was never my reasoning either so I'm not sure what you're refuting.

[jamesrcole]

I'm not refuting anything. All your comments have focused on things that people have promised that haven't turned out, which gives one the impression that that somehow applies to quantum computing as well. I'm trying to paint a more balanced picture of the situation.