The Quantum Era Is Here—and It Looks Different Than Expected

The Quantum Era Is Here—and It Looks Different Than Expected

Quantum computing has occupied a peculiar place in the policy imagination: perpetually imminent, strategically important, and operationally vague. It has been featured in national strategies and long-range forecasts yet has remained distant from day-to-day decision-making. That framing is outdated. The quantum era has begun—not as a single breakthrough, but as a divergence among technologies already reshaping how governments and industries solve…