Twenty-four satellites, atomic clocks accurate to a billionth of a second, and a signal that travels 20,000 kilometres from space to your pocket. The engineering behind GPS is one of the great unsung marvels of the modern world.
A quantum computer is not a faster classical computer. It is a fundamentally different kind of machine — one that exploits the strangeness of physics to solve problems that would take ordinary computers longer than the age of the universe.
Quantum computing is simultaneously one of the most hyped and most genuinely transformative technologies in development. Here is an honest account of where the field actually stands in 2026.
