Quantum Computers first appeared to me when Bill Clinton's cabinet temporarily opened doors of secrecy at DOE, revealing state of the art research done with taxpayer support. Access was given to the interested public, rather than selected individuals. What was lacking in the mid 90s was an operating system. There was no visible public discussion beyond the fears and promise of the post quantum world. Who would know that in 2021, an open source operating system would appear. What I've done here, to start the discussion is paste what remains of the quantum-os.org website at https://github.com/quantumos-org/quantum-os

Of course, it's unlikely you have a quantum computer available to run this code, but Qbits can be modeled on your classical computer, and simulations of quantum computers are available. Simulations will be slow, but can be realistic. So quantum computing is now within reach of your bright young children. My point is not to make a deep dive into the technology, but to dive just deep enough to bring to the surface social and economic realities that will result, before it's too late for us who are not part of the inner circle.

So here is the website that was started at quantum-os.org in 2021, and mysteriously abandoned. Mysterious pending further research.

UPDATE: "Further research" reveals DIY hardware projects and an open source quantum operating system.

An operating system for quantum computers based on the Linux kernel