There is also a need to clarify what you mean by 2nd Generation Quantum Technologies  and why you think there is a breakpoint from conventional - we no longer consider atomic clocks to be exotics, nor high mobility transistors, nor superconducting magnets and yet they are clearly  components that rely on QM, they have just been subsumed over recent years into the design engineers catalogue of available components. We do not suddenly stop using all the stuff that came before, unless there is a clear advatage to the new.

Personally I do not expect a sudden shock or revolution, more of a movement of techniques and components from the R and D lab to the D and I lab over time,  and steady upwards specification creep (much as the microprocessor has done with computing over the last 50 years), yes the face of engineering will change, but that on its own is not new or revolutionary - recall the horn gramophone or delta shadowmask CRT anyone ? I suspect QM devices will not affect the operation of door hinges or sanitary plumbing, for which stable solutions exist, nor to questions like how far away a radio wave of given power and modulation scheme can be detected, as the physics is broadly fixed. The changes will be to things that are currently on the edge of very hard or impossible in terms of speed and power, and I agree the cutting edge will be computing.

IF this advance is not to leave the UK behind, we do however need to be able to support those who struggle to keep up, with accessible and digestible publications and application notes etc if we expect the techniques to be used, but again this is not an issue specific to QM.

There is also a need to clarify what you mean by 2nd Generation Quantum Technologies  and why you think there is a breakpoint from conventional - we no longer consider atomic clocks to be exotics, nor high mobility transistors, nor superconducting magnets and yet they are clearly  components that rely on QM, they have just been subsumed over recent years into the design engineers catalogue of available components. We do not suddenly stop using all the stuff that came before, unless there is a clear advatage to the new.

Personally I do not expect a sudden shock or revolution, more of a movement of techniques and components from the R and D lab to the D and I lab over time,  and steady upwards specification creep (much as the microprocessor has done with computing over the last 50 years), yes the face of engineering will change, but that on its own is not new or revolutionary - recall the horn gramophone or delta shadowmask CRT anyone ? I suspect QM devices will not affect the operation of door hinges or sanitary plumbing, for which stable solutions exist, nor to questions like how far away a radio wave of given power and modulation scheme can be detected, as the physics is broadly fixed. The changes will be to things that are currently on the edge of very hard or impossible in terms of speed and power, and I agree the cutting edge will be computing.

IF this advance is not to leave the UK behind, we do however need to be able to support those who struggle to keep up, with accessible and digestible publications and application notes etc if we expect the techniques to be used, but again this is not an issue specific to QM.