I spoke recently to a member of the panel that awarded me my first research grant on quantum computers (1985). He said it was a close-run thing. I asked if I'd have got it under today's criteria. He said: no chance; basically I could tick none of the boxes.https://twitter.com/dela3499/status/982223886627495936 …
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Today IBM, Rigetti, Google, or Microsoft would probably have given you the grant.
Deutsh's work is at the _beginning_ of a long causal chain which led to the interest of IBM, Rigetti etc. It's like saying the grandchild could have birthed the grandmother.
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I know. I consider him the father of quantum computing, despite the Feynman simulator idea. Thought it was a funny point about what today really is like in the field because of DD.
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True, although I guess the bigger point here is that these companies are funding some of the most interesting fundamental research ideas today, sort of like what Bell Labs and IBM were doing thirty years ago.
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