Well-written overview of the excitement generating around quantum and topological physics. Databases of candidate materials numbering in the thousands are curre

Well-written overview of the excitement generating around quantum and topological physics. Databases of candidate materials numbering in the thousands are currently being compiled. Superconductivity. Memory and computation embedded in braiding of world lines. Valleytronic stability in bi-layer graphene that scales to infinite dimension in the transverse dimension and could scale quantum computation to arbitrary numbers of qubits. It's worth remarking that the highly dendritic structure of neurons in the brain and its exponential efficiency above what modern silicon photo-lithography based supercomputers are capable of today is no coincidence. We are still very much at the experimental and early prototype stage for any topological devices. And it will take a massive re-tooling of current manufacturing. But somewhere in this space is room for the next Intel to emerge. What is required is a ten-fold or more increase in current levels of funding for quantum initiatives. And not just computing, but quantum biology as well.