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    It is not the case that The history of computing shows that resource bounds once deemed physically unrealizable have repeatedly become tractable as technology advances, as with quantum superposition exploiting exponential state spaces.

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    • 1.Quantum decoherence and error rates remain fundamentally stubborn; scaling to useful qubit counts hits exponential cost walls distinct from previous technological curves.
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    • 2.Quantum advantage requires specific problem classes; general intractability (P≠NP) cannot be overcome by hardware alone, only by algorithm fundamentals.
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    • 3.Past breakthroughs addressed engineering challenges within known physics, whereas quantum scaling faces thermodynamic and information-theoretic hard limits.
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    • 1.Classical computation faced similar 'impossible' barriers (miniaturization, reliability) that Moore's Law and error correction subsequently overcame.
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    • 2.Quantum systems demonstrably access exponential state spaces unavailable to classical systems, showing fundamentally new computational resources emerge with technology.
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    • 3.Historical pattern: vacuum tubes → transistors → integrated circuits shows repeated breakthroughs in implementing seemingly intractable physical processes reliably.
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