Spending time visiting the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a somewhat surreal experience. Like a football fan at your team’s grounds, you have to work at not being a little awed by everything you’ve read and seen about the place. MIT is home to one of the greatest concentrations of intelligence on the planet. It is not unreasonable to expect a Nobel prize winner to walk by at any moment. One of the world’s latest quantum computers is in a building nearby. It works by generating the coldest area in the known universe to work, in a space oddly…

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