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Chapter 1<br />

Quantum Computation<br />

1.1 Motivation<br />

1.1.1 The Information Society<br />

During the 20 th century, information-intensive activities have grown from a<br />

few percent to two-thirds <strong>of</strong> all US labor [Molitor, 1982]. This was made possible<br />

by the advent <strong>of</strong> the personal computer and the increasingly wide-spread availability<br />

<strong>of</strong> information storage and sharing systems like magnetic hard disks and<br />

the Internet. The exponential improvements in performance and the drop in price<br />

<strong>of</strong> information gathering and creating devices has lead to an information deluge<br />

that is projected to result in a doubling <strong>of</strong> the world’s information base every 11<br />

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