Crossing the Data Divide: Quantum Information Theory and the Future of Data Management
- John Wills
- Dec 28, 2025
- 1 min read
An unlikely combination of events inspired this column: I’m on day 271 of learning Chinese (after being challenged by my son), and I’ve been binge-watching MIT lectures on quantum mechanics. Somewhere between wrestling tones in Mandarin and wrestling Hilbert spaces in quantum physics, it struck me: These two pursuits have something in common with enterprise data. They’re all about meaning, context, and the stubborn refusal of reality to fit neatly into our categories.