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David Ewalt

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Writer, editor, author of 'Of Dice and Men' & 'Defying Reality.' Formerly @Gizmodo @WSJ @Forbes. I drop science like Galileo dropped the orange.

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A real quantum leap

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By David Ewalt 
| Scientific American
One of the endemic illnesses of the American tech industry is an addiction to unsupported superlatives: Descriptors like “revolutionary,” “game-changing” or “disruptive” are applied to inventions that are at best incremental and at worst of no use at all. Despite the fact that I know this to be true, I now offer the following extraordinary statements: Quantum computing could change the world. It’s transformative, monumental, unprecedented.
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Unlikely paths to discovery

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By David Ewalt 
| Scientific American
In 1952 Collier’s magazine published an article detailing aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun’s vision for a space station, promising a spot where scientists and even tourists could stay “within the next 10 or 15 years.” Fifteen years later Hilton Hotels president Barron Hilton gave a speech at the American Astronautical Society in Dallas, where he laid out an idea for an orbiting hotel he expected to build within his lifetime.
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Unlikely paths to discovery

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By David Ewalt 
| Yahoo
In 1952 Collier’s magazine published an article detailing aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun’s vision for a space station, promising a spot where scientists and even tourists could stay “within the next 10 or 15 years.” Fifteen years later Hilton Hotels president Barron Hilton gave a speech at the American Astronautical Society in Dallas, where he laid out an idea for an orbiting hotel he expected to build within his lifetime.
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