The Sovereign Stack

di Nishant Prabhakar (Autore)

Nishant Prabhakar, 2026

This book was not written to predict the future. It was written to remove confusion about the present. Quantum computing has become one of those technologies that attracts extremes. To some, it is an imminent revolution that will upend everything we know. To others, it is a distant curiosity, forever five or ten years away, useful mainly for research papers and press releases. Both views are unsatisfying. Both obscure what actually matters. I wrote this book because I kept encountering the same gap: in boardrooms, policy discussions, investment committees, and technical forums. People sensed that quantum mattered, but could not articulate how, where, or on what timelines. Conversations oscillated between hype and dismissal, with very little space in between. This book occupies that middle space. It does not assume that quantum will magically solve problems. It assumes instead that quantum will behave like every other difficult, capital-intensive technology: it will arrive unevenly, integrate slowly, and reward those who treat it as infrastructure rather than spectacle. The focus on India is intentional, but not parochial. India is a useful lens because it combines scale, constraint, talent, and institutional complexity in ways that make abstract technology questions concrete. If quantum can be made useful here-inside messy systems, regulated environments, and resource-constrained realities-it can likely be made useful anywhere. This is not a book for physicists alone, nor for policymakers alone, nor for investors alone. It is written for people who build systems that must last longer than enthusiasm cycles. If the book succeeds, it will not convince you that quantum is inevitable. It will help you decide where it is relevant, where it is not, and how to engage with it without pretending certainty where none exists. That, to me, is the only honest starting point.

• Autore: Nishant Prabhakar
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Nishant Prabhakar
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798233101892