Quantum computing. Error-corrected machines approach the scale where they break current encryption and simulate chemistry.
Emerging Real but not yet at scale. The effects described are expected rather than observed. Largest effect expected 2030–2045.
Second-order effects
Every bank, hospital, and government must re-encrypt before it arrives (post-quantum migration is already a cybersecurity spending line); drug and materials discovery accelerates; the winner takes an option on every sector.
Its neighbourhood
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Frictions it intensifies
These pressures get worse, or reach more people.
Solutions it accelerates
Solutions it threatens
Sectors it reshapes
How to track it
If this trend is real, these are the numbers that will show it first.