Apple's iCloud Foreshadows a Future of Quantum Computing

By Marshall Kirkpatrick

Apple announced a slew of updates to its Mac OS, to its mobile iOS and to its relationship with the web in the form of a new product called iCloud today. A key over-arching trend across all the new technology announced

is that it is intended to make everything you do with data and devices faster, easier and more friction-free.

Someday, quantum computing may change all of this; it's a paradigm in which the spin of a single quantum bit in an atom is instantly r