I think there are a few more areas that need to be figured out before the "big bang" of quantum, things like HTS for example but it's obvious huge inroads have already been made (ie, http://www.wired.com/2012/02/ibm-quantum-milestone/) but the part that bugs me about this article is the fact that it is a "highly redacted report that won't be available until January" ... who does that help? Would you even want anyone outside the US to know any of this ... if something under those redacted lines is amazing (in the computational sense), I am sure it is in the best interest to hide it for a while.