Virtually every modern computer is vulnerable to a pair of devastating attacks, and there's only a fix for one of them, and it sucks

Quantum computing is going to have even worse vulnerabilities, like someone taking over a computer by waggling an entangled electron on the other side of the planet. And the worst of it is that whether or not the vulnerability actually exists is going to be probabilitistic.

Thinking about it, the brain is like a quantum computer (except not really*). It comes to answers that are approximately correct very quickly. It seems able to explore multiple outcomes almost simultaneously. It is easily perturbed. Nobody really knows how it works. It is expensive and delicate.
Whether we end up going the Dune/Herbert route or the Wolfbane/Pohl & Kornbluth route is left as an indeterminate outcome for the reader.

*before some smartass says “that’s a very poor analogy”

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