For most of our contemporaries, and politicians are no exception, their conception of physics remains confined to what we call a naive mechanicism. It remains difficult to grasp that mathematics, in its abstraction, provides the right concepts, and that it can be used to describe the world differently from the way we see it. Quantum physics is built against common sense.

In IT, the quantum revolution represents a challenge for policy-makers, as it is part of a continuum of technological (r)evolutions, particularly since the advent of the Internet, the effects of which are cumulative and far from under control.

The major difficulty, given the low level of acculturation of politicians to new technologies, lies in the lack of knowledge of these subjects and their economic and political stakes (this term should be taken in all its complexity), which can have consequences on their awareness of the economic and political stakes, their reactivity, the relevance of their choices, the quality of the decisions taken and of the resulting legislation.

This very particular context is grafted onto the more general one of a political environment more often obsessed with electoral deadlines and short-term urgencies than with foresight and scientific watch. Quantum computing