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 "Useful" is a loaded term. When people say that quantum computers are currently not useful, they mean that quantum computers are currently not <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareholder_value">maximizing shareholder value</a>. IBM, Google, various startups, and others work on quantum computing because they hope that it will maximize shareholder value.
-The nightmare of shareholder value maximizers is that quantum computing will only improve society indirectly. That is, quantum computing will only remain useful for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_research">basic research</a>. Given that Post-quantum cryptography invalidates Shor's algorithm as a potential shareholder useful application and the <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/602382.602408">overwhelming evidence</a> that quantum computers will only be useful for doing quantum science, how should the quantum computing industry proceed?</p>
+The worst-case scenario for shareholder value maximizers is that quantum computing will only improve society indirectly. That is, quantum computing will only remain useful for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_research">basic research</a>. Given that Post-quantum cryptography invalidates Shor's algorithm as a potential shareholder useful application and the <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/602382.602408">overwhelming evidence</a> that quantum computers will only be useful for doing quantum science, how should the quantum computing industry proceed?</p>
 
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 The best path is to carve out a subfield in quantum computing. The purpose of this subfield is to leverage Feynman's insight that quantum computers are very good at simulating quantum physics in order to improve the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applications_of_quantum_mechanics">applications of quantum mechanics</a>. There are many shareholder useful applications of quantum mechanics. Atomic clocks, lasers and MRIs being a few. The subfield we are carving recognizes that quantum computing is a metatechnology: Technology used to design shareholder useful technologies that utilize quantum mechanics.