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Today\'s powerful computers that run on microscopic transistor chips won\'t begin to match the speed of a totally different kind of computer which may be available 50 years from now, thanks to researchers at The University of Arizona in Tucson. We all know that information technology has been driving our economic engine over the past decade or two. But for that to continue, a new paradigm for information processing will be needed by the middle of the next century. It looks like quantum information may be a candidate, there are no undamental barriers in the way. There is no basic fundamental law that says this cannot be done. Still, it\'s going to be very hard.