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CEO of Kipu Quantum. Algorithms compressed to run on noisy, error-prone quantum processors — making practical quantum computation available a decade before the hardware is ready. A 2040 where quantum advantage is already invisible infrastructure.
Enrique Solano grew up in Lima as the rebel child of engineers, the one who quit mechanical engineering in his final year. One of the most cited quantum theorists alive, he insists he is an artist first.
His company, named in Quechua, makes a heretical bet: stop waiting for the perfect qubits that may never come, and squeeze real value out of today's noisy, messy ones. He hates the word future. In quantum computing, he says, it is the excuse the field uses to avoid being useful now. So his miracle is set in the present tense.
Pressed on 2040, he relents only a little: AI and quantum quietly merged, as ordinary as riding a bicycle, something a teenager handles without once asking how it works. The hard physics does not vanish. It simply stops being anyone's problem.
Episode 4 of The Sovereign Stack.
His company, named in Quechua, makes a heretical bet: stop waiting for the perfect qubits that may never come, and squeeze real value out of today's noisy, messy ones. He hates the word future. In quantum computing, he says, it is the excuse the field uses to avoid being useful now. So his miracle is set in the present tense.
Pressed on 2040, he relents only a little: AI and quantum quietly merged, as ordinary as riding a bicycle, something a teenager handles without once asking how it works. The hard physics does not vanish. It simply stops being anyone's problem.
Episode 4 of The Sovereign Stack.
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What is I Attract Miracles?
I Attract Miracles — The Speculative Science Podcast
We sit down with the architects of the next decade: scientists, founders, and inventors building the technology that sounds impossible until it isn't. Each episode follows one breakthrough through three movements. The Origin, where curiosity turned a researcher into a founder. The Mechanism, where we make the science visceral. And The Dispatch, where the guest steps five to fifteen years into the future and describes, from the inside out, a day in the world their work is creating.
This is speculative non-fiction in the spirit of Verne and Gibson: nothing invented, only the present recombined into the plausible adjacent worlds it's already pointing toward. Technology arrives faster than we can imagine living inside it. We close that gap.
Hosted by Ivo Betke. Executive Producer Nicolai Haas.