Podcast with Brian Lenahan
Summary
Veronica Combs: And sensing and quantum communications, those are so much more tangible than material science or making batteries more efficient; you can really draw people in with those examples. When people are creating roadmaps and you don’t meet those milestones, there’s a big challenge there that says, Okay, so is there an inherent problem inside the organization and its laboratories and its resources? Those key skill sets, being able to tell the story of quantum inside your organization in a comfortable way that is primarily focused on the company’s objectives, but inserting those capabilities for the future. I think your most recent book On the Shoulders of Giants, 10 Quantum Pioneers of the Past, you wrote that with Kenna Hughes Castleberry, who we had on the podcast a few episodes ago. But Satyendra Bose from India, incredible intellect, Al Khwarizmi who algorithms are named after, back in, you know, 800 AD, and so, stories were compelling.