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<em>‘The future isn’t what it used to be’</em>, French poet Paul Valery once said, and this statement couldn’t be truer than today. We are on the rise, humanity, that is, and it’s all because of the new horizon of technology, a giant of the future, quantum computers, that is the cause. Years ago, in the embryonic days of computer development, the dream of mathematicians and scientists was humble enough: to number crunch simple computational operations. <a href="http://zuse.zib.de/z4">Konrad Zuse’s Z4</a>, built in 1944, was such a machine. From that, scores of rudimentary computers followed in Z4’s wake.