[Air-L] New essay article: Over the Quantum Cliff

Aram Sinnreich aram at american.edu
Wed Mar 25 09:53:04 PDT 2026


Colleagues,

I’m writing to share a new essay article in the online magazine Broadcast. While some news media have covered the “quantum cliff” (aka Q-Day) from a cybersecurity perspective, Jesse Gilbert and I have instead written about the broader social and cultural consequences of quantum decryption: what will it mean for us to live in a world where decades of our digital secrets are suddenly, and permanently, revealed to the world at large? This is a question we alluded to in our book The Secret Life of Data, but in this article, we take a much deeper dive.

https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/quantum-cliff-aram-sinnreich-jesse-gilbert

I look forward to hearing your thoughts!

Aram
(apologies for cross-posting)
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