Bangladesh needs many things for everyone, before quantum toys for a few
Preschool Lecture on Quantum Mechanics – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeNobtjRPr0
This is the wrong way to teach quantum technologies, for Bangladesh that has many needs before playing with technologies that require specialized resources only available at high price from other places. You need to start with what you want to do, and then find the best tools and places to do it. The way you are trying here is what I learned 55 years ago. It is not going to help you much to apply quantum technologies, or to create new ones. It is old ways of looking at things. Are there useful ideas? Not as much as looking at what all those companies and schools saying “we are quantum” are actually doing.
Plasmonics, pico technologies, fusion, clean atomic energy, solar system exploration, modeling and simulation with true digital twins, symbolic math with true-AIs, gravitational engineering, remote sensing, true-AI methods for sustainable societies, accounting planning and management, food production, country management, global networking, global collaboration where billions can work together. There are literally billions of jobs now, and many use quantitative methods, computers and can use AIs. Is writing equations on paper going to help you in industries where everyone uses computers for everything? Where manipulating symbols is not a rich and rewarding skill?
If the goal is “Physics for Bangladesh”, there are better ways to do it than filling blackboards and papers with handwritten equations and notes. Interview people in Bangladesh who are trying or wanting to try things. If Bangladesh cannot even clean up its flood zones and give every person a clear view of where the flood waters are going, do you think symbols on paper will help them? Are the schools in Bangladesh open and collaborative? Does everyone have enough to eat, clothing and housing, access to learning, access to tools and resources? Or it is all “who do you know?” Old physics is NOT going to be good for Bangladesh or any country. You are going to have to up your game a lot to survive, let alone change the fate of Bangladesh. The term I use is “lives with dignity and purpose”.
Tools for Bangladesh, open shareable resources and learning, open data. There are many things that come first, before paper mathematics.
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Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation
