Another consideration for quantum computing in the near future is the cybersecurity implications. Unfortunately, the big problems that quantum computers might be better at solving include decrypting data and hacking the matrix. Meaning that as soon as quantum computers manager this, the foundations of what our cyber security is based on are compromised.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology in the USA has predicted that the RSA algorithm, a key part of cybersecurity, will be broken within 7-10 years, and other experts predict this will happen within 3-5 years.
Therefore one of the fields that is getting a lot of interest right now is quantum-safe cryptography, which is a way of encoding data – data which can include messages, health records, bank accounts, etc – in a way that is harder for quantum computers to hack.