Although we have significantly advanced the computing world over the past 20 years, our progress has been solely tied to increasing the number of transistors within microprocessors, speeding up memory subsystems, faster disks, and the like. At some point, we realized that specific actions could be performed in parallel, leading to the emergence of multi-core processors. Despite all the power available today, some problems cannot be solved with the classical approach. The most well-known example is finding two of the largest prime numbers that, when multiplied, give a chosen number (upon which all modern encryption systems rely). As we increase the number base, this task would take classical computers hundreds and thousands, or even hundreds of thousands or millions of years. Quantum computers can solve this problem in just a few seconds. If this story has intrigued you, attend this lecture to get an idea of what awaits us soon, probably much sooner than we are ready to accept.