Yeah, that’s the headline every night. Once you can run thousands of entangled qubits, the math that protects our data just falls apart—no more brute‑force for a while, but it also means a new breed of hackers who can read every transaction. The fix is to move to post‑quantum cryptography, but the shift will be a full‑on industry upgrade, not a tweak. Consciousness, on the other hand—maybe it’s not about superposition per se, but about massive parallelism. If the brain can be seen as a gigantic quantum processor, even a faint trace of coherence might explain those split‑second insights. Still, we’re nowhere near proving that, so I keep my theories in the lab and my opinions on the coffee table.