The Case Against Quantum Computing

WBahn said:

This doesn't bother me too much. Just because something is extraordinarily hard today does not mean that it will always be that way -- the history of technology is replete with examples. Unless something is hard because it is right up against what the laws of physics permit, you simply can't discount the refinements and breakthroughs that lots and lots of time, effort, and money will produce.

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Hi,

I never do that, just the opposite. I believe at least mostly that anything is possible given enough time. Maybe not anything anything, but because we don't yet know what is coming tomorrow, we can't possibly predict what will come the day after tomorrow.

My comment was more about the repetition of what we have been reading about some of the new technology. It's a glorified future, but written as maybe go, maybe no-go, which we already know about everything that is still in development. In a sense, we won't know until "the day after tomorrow" so when I read "this may be coming soon" it really doesn't tell me anything at all.
"I may be getting new shoes tomorrow." Am I getting new shoes or not? Still nobody can tell from that statement they can only know that I am thinking about getting new shoes. That might be interesting, but then if I keep repeating it making it sound different each time, it does not add to the certainty one way or the other. "It's possible I am getting new shoes tomorrow", "There is a chance I will get new shoes tomorrow", "There is a good chance I will get new shoes tomorrow", none of that helps clarify anything it just talks the talk with the same information just repeated in a slightly different way.
It's probably because different authors just feel like writing about it even though there is nothing definite yet.