Quantum computation will not radically change computation by 2100 except in encryption.
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Conditional on no AGI or population collapse.

Because of the likely transformative nature of AGI and superintelligence, I phrase many of my predictions about the future as conditional on no AGI so that the predictions are less dependent on AGI timeline estimates. I would estimate above 90% that technologies like cultured meat, fusion, and life extension will be developed very quickly after superintelligence. Similarly, I condition on no population collapse because I would estimate under 10% that these technologies would develop after population collapse to below, say, 1 billion humans (e.g., nuclear winter, pandemic) without decades of recovery time.

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The question is we dont know if quantum is all there is, could be a transitional theory to something more fundamental or a bigger mystery . Quantum biology is interesting but there will come a point where high quality research will become personalized and instantly accessible maybe it's just fun to imagine, academia will bleed. I hope people look for challenges.

There is a wide range of problems whose solution involves an exhaustive search through some parameter space. Grover's algorithm on a quantum computer can search through N possibilities in O(sqrt(N)) steps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover%27s_algorithm

The biggest things that it will impact in the medium term will be quantum chemistry simulations. The impact to encryption will be a blip, all the systems that matter with have migrated to quantum resistant methods by then. (Store Now Decrypt Later attacks will be annoying, but again that will be relatively minor.)

Not even encryption will change but the academic theory.

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