Quantum Technologies and Technological Convergences

The International Year of Quantum Science and Technology

2025 has been proclaimed the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology.
It is not just a label; it is a symbolic threshold: the promise that the invisible — vibrating particles, collapsing states, entanglement defying logic — can become the concrete infrastructure of our lives.

What once belonged to abstract mathematics now demands to be body, matter, market.

And yet, there is something unsettling in this race. The billions flowing into laboratories are not neutral: they fund post-quantum cryptography, molecular simulations, new materials. They are attempts to tame indeterminacy, to turn uncertainty into profit.

But can we truly dominate what is, by definition, elusive?

Beyond Bits and Qubits

It’s not just about algorithms dancing beyond the limits of silicon.
We are inside a broader convergence, where the boundaries between technologies melt away like snow under the sun:

Artificial intelligence intertwining with biotechnology
New energies breathing in synergy with neural networks
Hybrid systems that resemble living ecosystems more than machines

Fertile ground, yes — but also a minefield.

The Price of Symbiosis

I see a future where:

The body might no longer distinguish itself from the machine sustaining it.
A drug emerges not only from chemical labs, but from quantum simulations guided by AIs learning from our biological data.
The energy that fuels the world is no longer just electricity, but the underground heartbeat of bio-digital reactors.

It’s an image that fascinates me — and frightens me.

Light and Shadow

There is a constant tension: promise and threat.

Quantum technologies open scenarios of unbreakable security, but also undermine today’s digital economy.
Artificial intelligence offers personalized cures, but forces us to ask: who controls our genome, our fears?
New energies speak of sustainability, yet reveal a voracious desire for limitless growth.

I cannot pretend to be neutral. As I write, I sway between excitement and vertigo.

Cathedrals of Glass

Part of me wants to believe these convergences might generate a new technological humanism, a landscape where science is no longer domination but listening.

But another part fears we are building cathedrals of glass without foundations — fragile and exposed to collapse.

Numbers and Projections

What had long lived in theory — superposition, entanglement, qubits — now presses against our flesh.

$97 billion: projected size of the quantum ecosystem by 2035, dominated by computing. (McKinsey & Company)
$1.3 trillion: potential value in biotech and pharma through quantum simulation and molecular design. (PostQuantum.com)

Yet numbers are not destiny — they are invitations: to imagine, to dissent, to reforge.

Where Boundaries Disappear

AI, quantum tech, biotech, new energy — we speak of them as separate kingdoms. But the real alchemy lies in their fusion.

Hybrid quantum–classical architectures already reshape material science and automotive engineering. (IEEE)
AI accelerates synthetic biology workflows at speeds unimaginable a decade ago. (Nature)
Photonic chips push quantum circuits into silicon wafer scale. (arXiv)

These are not exotic fringes — they are tectonic shifts.
But with shifts come fractures:

Who owns the data defining your biology?
Who writes the architecture of hybrid brains?
Whose values are baked into these machines?

Governance lags behind invention. The dual-use dilemma — what can heal can also harm — hovers over every breakthrough. (Nature)

The Stakes Are Bodily, Political, Existential

When I think of quantum cryptography, I do not see lockboxes only — I see the rupture of current encryption, the collapse of secrets once thought safe.

When I think of AI designing molecules, I see medicine tailored to you — and also weaponized against you.

When I think of energy systems intertwined with neural networks, I imagine cities that breathe like organisms — but also systems that surveil.

The contrast is ever-present: authenticity vs illusion, body vs machine, light vs shadow.

Taking a Stance

Yes, I take a stance:
It is vital that we steer these convergences, rather than be swept by them.
That we claim authorship not as viceroys of technology, but as custodians of a fragile balance.

A New Crossroads — Grounded in Urgency

We do not have the luxury of passive witnessing.
The choice is not between observing or acting — the choice is how we act.

Do we build with open hands or closed fists?
Do we write codes that empower, or that bind?
Do we make systems that listen, or that dominate?

The most radical question is not what we can build, but who we will have become by building it.

Because in the quantum turn, we are the instruments as much as the creators.
And the resonance we imprint — ethical, human, audacious — may outlive any circuit we conceive.