I get your point but Watson and its transistors cannot be compared to a quantum computer. Watson is more like a modern answering machine, it has nothing to do with artificial intelligence or the possibilities of quantum computers. Quantum computing and nanotechnology go hand in hand. In the future, MRI scans will be able to look at single molecules and they will tell us where atoms are located. This will lift diagnostics to a whole new level. Breathing upon your mirror will give you more sophisticated information about your health than a whole laboratory will give you today.
Quantum computers could help to program quantum computers. If there will ever be something like AI or singularity, quantum computers will lay their basis.
I wouldn't say watson is like an answering machine but I'm an ex computer programmer. Tha algorithms necessary
for Watson to answer the questions he did accurately are extremely complex and require him to go from
one data base to another looking for clues based on what he found in each data base. Some of his answers were totally off track but that's what his
data and programs led him to.
Without these data bases of info tho, he's clueless. Which is the problem with using a computer to determine
a cure or some causes for diseases. The data / chemicals aren't always something tangible that can be measured. And
unless you go to a specialty clinic, the medical
community doesn't have the capability or knowledge to accurately measure these chemicals. They can't measure
everything either. We
see this discussed here all the time. Finding xmrv is a good example of this.
Another ex is tryptase. It has to be measured when someone is having an attack. That's
not the way anaphylaxis should be dealt with tho. The drugs to stop the anaphylaxis and lower tryptase need to
to be given.
Fwiw, as a programmer I could tell you every single component of every airplane that came out of our plant. Down
to the composition of each screws and where they were used and if they were the cause of any problems. That's just from reading data. I couldn't pull data that wasn't available tho. Data banks of all the chemicals in our bodies aren't available.
They never will be ...
Just my 2 cents ... X