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by 781 2914 days ago
People struggled for 40 years to make a blue LED.

Even if quantum computers required near zero temperatures, superconductors and such stuff, there is no reason why you couldn't have all that in a no-serviceable-parts-inside box if the economic incentives were strong enough.

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Well the question really is economic incentives. If it is too hard to do (say, doesn't scale) or can be simulated efficiently-ish on a classical computer -- no one will do it.
I love your optimism.