Why Quantum Computing Is Not Optional
We are approaching the limits of what classical computers can do - not because our processors aren't fast enough, but because some problems are fundamentally too complex for binary computation to handle. Simulating how a molecule behaves, optimising a global supply chain with thousands of interdependent variables, breaking modern encryption, modelling climate systems at meaningful resolution - these are not problems you can solve by adding more transistors. The number of possible states grows exponentially, and classical computers drown. We've been papering over this ceiling for decades with clever approximations, but approximations have real costs: drugs that take 13 years and $2.6 billion to discover because we can't accurately simulate molecular interactions; financial models that misunderstand risk because they can't process correlated variables at scale; materials science that moves at a crawl because we're guessing at quantum behaviour rather than computing it.
Quantum computers don't just do the same thing faster - they represent information differently. Qubits can exist in superposition and become entangled, meaning a quantum system can hold and process exponentially more states simultaneously than any binary machine. For the specific class of problems that are quantum in nature - chemistry, cryptography, optimisation, simulation - this is not an improvement in degree. It is a change in kind. The industries that crack these problems first will have capabilities that are simply unavailable to those still running on classical hardware. That is why every major government on earth is funding quantum research, and why the race to build reliable quantum systems is one of the defining technology competitions of this decade.On April 17, 2026, Creotech Quantum debuts on the Warsaw Stock Exchange at a book valuation of PLN 208.3 million - roughly $56 million USD at today's rate. That number will likely look quaint within a few years. Or it won't, and this will have been a speculative bet that didn't pay off. That's the honest framing. Here's the full case. Creotech Quantum splits from Creotech Instruments.