Thank you for tuning in to week 220 of the Lindahl Letter publication. A new edition arrives every Friday. This week the topic under consideration for the Lindahl Letter is, “Welcome to 2026 and beyond.”

This last week has been about being a reflective practitioner and thinking about where we have been throughout the last year of the Lindahl Letter. This last year we covered research notes numbered from week 175 to 219. Back in June I did acknowledge a 56 day posting break in 2025 which is interesting to look back on now as an opportunity to reflect and build something substantial going forward. Toward the end of the year we got back into the groove of quality weekly missives which is good and something to continue. My focus on quantum, robotics, and AI seems to hold true to my roots of being generally interested in technology.

Overall, my general interest in technology is what drives my interest in lifelong continuous learning. With that context being set it is probably easy enough to set the expectation that in 2026 and beyond the Lindahl Letter will be targeted toward the production of weekly research notes that are accessible, targeted, and focused. These missives will require less than 10 minutes of a reader’s time and should be a clear value add in terms of gaining knowledge, understanding, and context for complex technical content.

Let’s establish the theoretical home base of this writing enterprise for 2026 which will be set on the foundation of digging into the edge of realized technology. That topic might sound familiar from week 212 of the Lindahl Letter. During that writing project we took a look at what technology is likely to be realized in the next 30 years. That coverage included looking at the metaverse, robotics, climate tech, space economy, biotech, synthetic biology, neurotech, and even fusion. I do believe that we will see quantum, robotics, and some AI mixed into that soup of potentially realized technology.

All of that technology will see advancement and it will certainly be moving toward the edge of becoming realized technology. That is fundamental where it goes from being exploratory and research driven to being in production out in the wild where it will eventually become commoditized unless a clear winner breaks away and can hold onto a real advantage. I’m pretty skeptical about any of these technologies having a clear moat that allows that advantage. For the most part once a group of people know how to do these things the technology will be realized and break out into wider use.

My primary weekly writing focus will be the Lindahl Letter and this is the place you will be able to find out what topics grab my attention and I consider to be worth sharing. My focus in the last 90 days has been heavily on quantum computing which is understandable due to how close it is getting to be a realized technology. We are on the edge of people figuring out how to demonstrate quantum supremacy for use cases and building these things into data centers as a clear value add for corporate customers and research labs that can afford to be a part of the journey. Outside of that, most of the major quantum computers that will be part of the early wave demonstrating the technology will be tied to either a research lab or corporate R&D group.

Those early systems are starting to really scale up focus on specific advances in the quantum space. My research project in that space helped me to focus on open-access nanofabs, national laboratories, commercial foundry services, and captive industrial fab sites. Each of those groups has different advantages and research interests. We will see where the ultimate breakthroughs end up coming from as the story unfolds toward realized quantum technology.

That is where we are heading throughout 2026. Thank you for being here for the journey and I look forward to learning more about technology and digging into the frontier of what will be realized this year. Overall the state of the Lindahl Letter is strong and we should be able to continue moving forward on our weekly journey of exploration into technology.

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