What is Quantum Computing and How Will It Impact Us?

On the 23rd of October, Google came out with a bold claim: it had achieved quantum supremacy . For the first time in computing history, researchers had found an algorithm where a quantum computer would always outperform a classical computer and where no classical workaround could be found. More specifically, Google’s 53-bit Sycamore processor performed a computation in 200 seconds that would’ve taken the most powerful supercomputer 10,000 years.