Teleportation on LiveScience

Whenever I am reading a science blog and the scientific story gets linked in some way to science fiction, my interest becomes even more peaked. On LiveScience there is an interesting story about teleportation that scientists are working on at the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland. From the article:

"Scientists have come a bit closer to achieving the "Star Trek" feat of teleportation. No one is galaxy-hopping, or even beaming people around, but for the first time, information has been teleported between two separate atoms across a distance of a meter — about a yard."

So even though the article got my attention with Star Trek themed ideas what is really cool is the computer that they are working on.

"A quantum computer could perform certain tasks, such as encryption-related calculations and searches of giant databases, considerably faster than conventional machines. The effort to devise a working model is a matter of intense interest worldwide."

It looks like we will be getting some pretty fast computers in the future. Right there, famous computers, are the stuff that science fiction is made of. Remember Hal 9000 or Joshua from War Games, Jane from the Ender Trilogy? All famous computers capable of incredible tasks. I wonder how far we can go in the development of super computers? It is incredible how far we have come already. Not to date myself but when I went to University I had to type all my work on a typewriter!(At least it was electric...) I wish I had a computer back then, oh well. I cannot believe the short time from the Commodore 64 to the current notebooks and the internet what could possibly be next in our future but I am sure it will astound us and I will say I used to type on a computer notebook thinking it was the best thing since sliced bread.

Here is a link to the full article:Teleportation