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Where quantum leaves the lab.

A podcast about how quantum technologies create real-world impact. Phillips Exeter student researcher Ashton Reddy asks scientists and builders one question: what real problem does this solve, and when?

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Trailer Dec 15, 2026 · Episode 1 Jan 12, 2027 · then monthly
The Impact Clock Every guest places their technology

Each episode ends with the guest placing their work on this scale. We keep the scoreboard, and in the season finale past guests come back to check who was right.

Season 1 · 12 episodes · second Tuesday of each month

Twelve questions about real impact

Planned topics. Guests are announced as episodes are recorded.

SecuritySensingHealth Chemistry & materialsMoney & policyFoundations & people
  1. 01
    SecurityJan 2027

    Q-Day

    When could quantum computers break today's encryption, and is the world ready?

  2. 02
    SensingFeb 2027

    Navigating without GPS

    Can quantum sensors guide ships and planes when GPS is jammed?

  3. 03
    HealthMar 2027

    Reading the brain and heart

    How are quantum magnetometers changing brain and heart scans?

  4. 04
    HealthApr 2027

    Drug discovery, honestly

    What can quantum do for medicine design that classical computers cannot?

  5. 05
    ChemistryMay 2027

    Feeding the planet

    Could quantum simulation crack low-energy fertilizer and better catalysts?

  6. 06
    MaterialsJun 2027

    Better batteries

    Will quantum simulation design the next battery chemistry?

  7. 07
    MoneyJul 2027

    Quantum and money

    Where do banks see real value: risk, optimization, or security?

  8. 08
    FoundationsAug 2027

    The road to useful

    Why error correction decides when any of this arrives.

  9. 09
    SensingSep 2027

    Time itself

    How optical atomic clocks underpin power grids, telecom and markets.

  10. 10
    PolicyOct 2027

    Who's paying and why

    What national quantum strategies are buying, and the security stakes.

  11. 11
    PeopleNov 2027

    Quantum careers

    Who gets hired, and do you need a PhD?

  12. 12
    FinaleDec 2027

    Hype audit

    Past guests revisit the Impact Clock scoreboard. Who was right?

HostAshton Reddy
Why this show

Asking the questions a curious outsider would

Ashton Reddy is a junior at Phillips Exeter Academy and founder of the Exeter Quantum Computing Club. He came to quantum through error-correction research. Most quantum conversations are about qubit counts and funding rounds. This one starts with the problem: a patient's scan, a jammed GPS signal, a bank's security, a farm's fertilizer bill.

  • SchoolPhillips Exeter Academy, class of 2028
  • FounderExeter Quantum Computing Club
  • ResearchQuantum error correction and quantum sensing
  • First paperPredicting failures in a noisy error-correcting code with a neural network
  • Current workAdaptive Error-Corrected Quantum Sensing Under Nonstationary Noise: An Application to Human Biomagnetic Signals
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Listen

On every podcast app from January 12, 2027

Full episodes on video and audio. Short clips every week on LinkedIn, YouTube Shorts and Instagram.

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Be a guest

You build, research, fund or regulate a quantum technology with a real-world use. Send a two-line pitch: the problem it solves and where it sits on the Impact Clock.

Partners and press

Universities, student quantum clubs, conferences and media: we trade episodes, interviews and recordings at events.