It is rare to see a 100,000,000x leap in computing […]

It is rare to see a 100,000,000x leap in computing power… at least in this universe!

Google just announced their watershed results in quantum computing using their D-Wave Two: http://googleresearch.blogspot.ca/2015/12/when-can-quantum-annealing-win.html

Has there ever been a leap forward like this in human history? (in any thing, like computing, energy processing, transportation… I am guessing there have purely algorithmic advances of this magnitude, but having trouble thinking of a single advance of this scale)

It is a completely different way to compute — as David Deutsch posits — harnessing the refractive echoes of many trillions of parallel universes to perform a computation.

Here are my D-Wave Systems Inc. posts over the past 12 years: https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=d-wave&user_id=44124348109%40N01&sort=date-posted-desc