Quote of the day by IBM's Darío Gil: 'Not even a million or a billion of those supercomputers connected together could do the calculations of these future machines' — laying bare the almighty power of quantum computing

Although AI has sucked up all the bandwidth of public discourse across the tech industry, quantum computing is arguably just as revolutionary a technology – but remains dormant for now. That said, key breakthroughs in the last couple of years are said to mean that these machines could be 'useful' before too long.

Quantum advantage

IBM's senior vice president and director of research Dario Gil explained to CBS' 60 Minutes exactly what the likely impact of useful quantum computers would…