[Air-L] Online Talk "The Quantum Ecology: Ideas for Innovative Policymaking and the Governance of Quantum Information Technologies"

[Stefano Calzati]

This online talk might be of interest to the AoIR community.

"The Quantum Ecology: Ideas for Innovative Policymaking and the Governance of Quantum Information Technologies"

Online talk at the Centre for Advanced Studies, Joint Research Centre, European Commission

12th of February - 12:30 -13:30 (CET).
The talk is open to all! To get the Webex link, just send an email to JRC-Resonances at ec.europa.eu<mailto:JRC-Resonances at ec.europa.eu>.

More info here: https://science-art-society.ec.europa.eu/news/quantum-ecology-lunchtime-talk
The event will be recorded.

This talk will take the lead from Stefano Calzati and Derrick de Kerckhove's book "Quantum Ecology: Why and How New Information Technologies Will Reshape Societies" (The MIT Press<https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-mit-press/>, 2024, open access: https://lnkd.in/dEVQF4BS) in which the authors 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 will unpack and expand 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.