To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole.
I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more inclined to try to derive an ought from an is, than the population at large.
Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.
Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.
