------------------------------------------- It's 247 BC and we just discovered the quantum computer. NEWS BULLETIN Roman Podcasters Stone Table Dial-In Bulletin Board Quantum Computer Discovered Secunda Athenis, a freed gothic slave from the 3rd militia, recently found that by supercooling clay plasma, an unlimited number of qubits could be tangled to meet arbitrary goals. Secunda is fervently coding up something she calls the "Virld Vide Veb". Some of the tradesmen have been calling it simply the VV or double-V, in anticipation of somebody stealing a third of it so as to gain favor with the Emperor for themself. We expect new letters may come of this. Quantum computing has long been theorised as possible by a homeless monk named Pythagoras, who warns society that misuse of the technology could anger the gods. Pythagoras advises that all Roman Podcasters readers petition Secunda Athenis to immediately gift all research, stone and claywark, to Pythagoras so that proper auguring may be made before an upstart Messiah incarnates. Many of us have been copying Secunda's designs, and building quantum computers of our own. We and Secunda all hope this may soon replace the need for conquering and enslaving foreign nations, like the one she came from.