The Quantum Tipping Point Quantum supremacy isn’t just some abstract milestone anymore—it’s here, and it’s useful. D-Wave, the Canadian quantum computing company that’s been brushed off by quantum elitists for years, just planted a massive flag in the ground. Their Advantage2 prototype didn’t just perform a gimmick task faster than a classical computer—it simulated quantum magnetic materials, a problem so hellishly complex that even the world’s most powerful supercomputers would need over a million years to catch up. Oh, and D-Wave’s machine did it in minutes. Not hours. Not days. Minutes. This is the kind of leap we’ve been promised in sci-fi. But instead of Captain Picard saying, "Engage," we’ve got engineers in Vancouver saying, "Yeah, we just broke reality. You're welcome." A Brief History of Not Being Taken Seriously D-Wave started back in 1999, waving the banner of quantum annealing when everyone else was slobbering over gate-model quantum computing. That ...