Thread by @LRBbookshop

any booksellers reading this who are tempted to invest - i would strongly advise against it. we've had a light-based quantum computer for a while now and ok it's very fast but it's absolutely useless for bookselling

the main problem is that it doesn't support batchline or gardlink, or as far as i can tell any alternative stock management software. it simply uses boson sampling to calculate the distribution of photons

other problems: it doesn't sync with webmail or shopify, isn't compatible with most POS (point-of-sale) systems, can't access nielsen book data or tweetdeck (i am writing this on a different computer)

also it requires potassium titanyl phosphate crystals; this is one thing for waterstones / barnes & nobel, but indies are unlikely to have them lying around (we certainly don't), and you can guess from the listing here that the price is going to be steepish

and booksellers are unfortunately a lot more unreliable than photons

literally everyone involved in quantum computer manufacture seems to be trying to do things with photon detection. photon detection is all well and good but could you at least get batchline up and running