When I learned that former Pay Pal founder David Sacks had been named as Trump’s AI/Crypto czar, a thought occurred to me. Why doesn’t Donald Trump name a quantum czar, as well?
After all, it was President Trump who signed the original National Quantum Initiative in 2018. And in the next two decades quantum technology is going to be as world-changing, and as essential to national and economic security, as AI or crypto can hope to be.
Some might argue we already have the equivalent of a quantum czardom at the White House’s National Quantum Coordination Office-not to mention the team overseeing the Quantum Economic Development Consortium which is supported through the Department of Commerce.
While these bureaucratic efforts have been adequate at finding funding for research and development for future quantum science, they are a long way from raising Americans’ awareness of the possibilities of quantum technology right now—including quantum cryptography—and in moving the needle in terms of a broad-based effort to commercialize the quantum sector.
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