Scott Aaronson is brilliant, he knows his shit, and he's very, very good at explaining it.<p>But, and I say this as someone who hates listening to my own speech, listening to him is nigh painful.<p>Is there a text version of this talk around?
This is exciting. Eventually well all have a quantum computer in our pocket (or body?). The exciting thing is what possibilities does that bring? I guess we don't know yet.
I think he was fine at communicating and not terrible to listen to. I just didn't find the talk that interesting or cover anything I didn't already know about quantum computing theory. I wish it did, because there's much I don't understand.