IDG Contributor Network: How much should CIOs care about quantum today?

 [This article was co-written by Michael Hickins.]In an industry constantly looking over the horizon for the “next big thing,” quantum computing (QC) is hands-down the winner when it comes to magazine covers and breathless reporting.  But, unlike many overhyped technologies, QC already exists – albeit in very limited scope –and it may surpass current computing paradigms by many orders of magnitude for some types of computation. While many researchers are lookin