Communications of the ACM

Future Tense: Quantum Precog

Brian Clegg

Published Sep 26, 2013• 0 citations

Abstract

From the intersection of computational science and technological speculation, with boundaries limited only by our ability to imagine what could be. Spared a horrible death, it was murder just the same.

DOI: 10.1145/2507771.2507784

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