My main concern could be resolved quite easily if it were scaled back or simplified.
And because it could be scaled up, it went well.
Given the technology's environmental benefits, including the fact that the materials can be biodegraded after use, would applying it to manufacture supposedly unnecessary high-end items be counterproductive if it could be scaled up and people could overcome their aversion?
Vince Cable, the business secretary, has voiced doubts and suggested the scheme could be operated regionally so that it could be scaled back in the south-east, the centre of the house price boom.
But because the current process only creates about a cubic millimeter of hardened material, Bringa says, it's hard to imagine how it could be scaled up to make tougher airplane parts or military armor, for example.
We just never imagined that it would be deployed directly against the continental United States or that it could be scaled up so quickly.This is pretty cheap technology," he added, "and to add insult to injury by lifting the sanctions and releasing over 100 billion dollars in frozen financial assets we effectively financed the biggest threat to American security since the Cuban missile crisis".
Umesh Vazirani, co-author of a paper on quantum complexity theory, dismissed D-Wave's claims of speedup as a misunderstanding of his work, and suggested that "even if it turns out to be a true quantum computer, and even if it could be scaled to thousands of qubits, [it] would likely not be more powerful than a cellphone".
It was intended that if the redesign approach proved effective and affordable it could be scaled up to other practices.
Their goal was to make small scale fabrication faster and cheaper so it could be scaled up for industry.
In principle it could be scaled up and worn, but move around and the illusion would fall apart.
