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We can’t estimate what will be relevant 50 years from now.

If quantum or biological computing find some success, none of these are going to be relevant.

That said, pagerank is important to understand the modern tech world. Search is something we take for granted, and it’s great there’s a deeply mathematical (and somewhat counterintuitive) theory behind it.



The foundations of computation won't change with quantum/biological computers. Turing machines stay as relevant as ever.




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