Our CEO at TEDx: “Why Human Agency Matters in the Quantum Age”

At this year’s TEDx Lodz (at Monopolis), our CEO delivered a thought-provoking talk titled “Why Human Agency Matters in the Quantum Age.” The presentation explored how the coming Quantum Revolution is not merely about faster hardware, but about a profound paradigm shift in how we think, design, and program, especially in the realms of cryptography and secure computation.

During his talk, he referenced Quantum Blockchains’ pioneering work on Y2Q (Years to Quantum) readiness and the company’s long-term vision for integrating post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and quantum-secure key distribution (QKD/pQKD) into practical industrial systems. In this context, he highlighted the foundational importance of Shor’s and Grover’s algorithms: the twin milestones that revealed both the power and the threat of quantum computation to classical security models.

“Quantum computing challenges not only our encryption, but our very concept of computation,” he noted. “Programming a quantum device means rethinking causality, reversibility, and information itself — and that demands human judgment, intuition, and imagination.”

The central message of the talk was clear:
As we enter the Quantum Age, technology alone is not enough. Human agency — the ability to understand, interpret, and guide these systems — remains the decisive factor that will determine how quantum technologies serve human goals.