On the 12th of February, I delivered an online lunch talk as part of the SciArt series, organised by the Centre for Advanced Studies of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.

The talk was titled “The Quantum Ecology: Ideas for Innovative Policymaking and the Governance of Quantum Information Technologies“.

In the talk, I took the lead from our book Quantum Ecology: Why and How New Information Technologies Will Reshape Societies (The MIT Press, 2024, open access) in which we conceptualise the “quantum ecology” as both an onto-epistemological framework – telling us something about the nature of reality and what/how we can know – and a technological paradigm, pivoting around QITs – e.g., quantum sensing, quantum communication, quantum computers.

The talk unpacked and expanded both sides of the story, on the one hand, exploring how we can think through quantum principles and phenomena – e.g., “uncertainty”, “complementarity”, “superposition”, “entanglement” – to experiment with alternative ways of doing policy and, on the other hand, investigating the potential impact of QITs on the EU digital sovereignty, and how to govern these technologies considered as a “wicked” policy issue.

You can find the recording of the talk here: https://science-art-society.ec.europa.eu/quantum-ecology-talk-recording

Here the slides

(Errata corrige: in the slide where I discuss the principles of uncertainty and complementarity, I erroneously speak of position and spin, when, in fact, the latter, should be momentum).