https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/massive-disruption-quantum-computing-peter-diamandis?trk=hp-feed-article-title-publish

While Deep Learning is one paradigm shift in the way a machine learns, the other shift that is in the works is the advance to computing platforms. All that computer science and technology achieved till date relies on classical computing and with "quantum computing" chips, it is expected (atleast theoretically as of now) to gain efficiencies of orders of magnitude. "orders of magnitude" does not do justice to what is potentially possible with quantum computing. All that is hard to compute today (e.g., that which takes more than a life time of a person (say 100 yrs) like genome sequencing or finding earth like planets) could potentially be computed (solved) in seconds [thanks to the fuzziness (qubits) of quantum computing]. New worlds can be spawned (to simulate conscious beings) similar to this series: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475784 and the rules of Physics could be to our liking.

Reality (as we know it) will soon become (or already is) just another possibility! But this possibility makes me question my current reality. Could we be living in a simulation run by a super intelligent civilization who already cracked the code of quantum computing? Just imagine the recursive possibilities across space time, it makes me feel both small (looking at the scale of things) and significant (looking at the power of consciousness that could change the path of evolution) at the same time.

We are living in an interesting and significant TIMELINE of human evolution. I wish and hope "Sanity" takes precedence over "Reason/Thought" and eventually crossing this inflection point results in the "well being" of all humans.