[War_tijn]

Only if those common people only read the headline. One of the first sentences of the article is:

"Yet only now, after decades of gradual progress, are researchers finally close to building quantum computers powerful enough to do things that conventional computers cannot."

And there are more parts of the article that make clear that it's definitely not possible to buy a quantum computer any time soon.

Granted, it's not the best headline ever, but it's a decent article.

[gus_massa]

"close to building" means in 20 years that means https://xkcd.com/678/

For most people "close to building" means 1 or 2 years.