Series
Eighteen qubits
What a quantum machine actually does, what it never will, and the one deadline that binds you.
- Ongoing
- 5 episodes
- 56 min read
- A new episode every 2 day(s)
On 17 June 2026, France bought eighteen qubits. This series follows the object from the signature to whatever it changes, or fails to change, in your organisation. Five episodes, five questions, five beliefs overturned.
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Eighteen qubits: why France paid for so little
On 17 June 2026 France bought a machine that can do fewer things than an ordinary phone. Two impassable walls explain the spending, and three conditions…
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A current that turns for ever
Neither copper nor gold: a quantum chip is etched in tantalum on silicon, and lives one hundredth of a degree above absolute zero. Here is what…
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No, the machine does not try every answer at once
A qubit is not worth zero and one at the same time, and a quantum machine explores nothing in one go. Here is what a quantum…
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A hundred and one qubits to get a single one
Google showed in late 2024 that stacking qubits could finally serve a purpose, at the price of a hundred and one components for one usable qubit.…
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The only dated deadline is not a technical one
No power station will close, no server will be replaced, and yet French companies are already working against a deadline that no laboratory set. The researcher…
