Observed arrival · 2026-09-09
Basalt Labs, the quantum company that exists only in a novel
A deliberately realistic website for a fictional neutral-atom quantum computing company in Brad Feld and Phin Argofy's novel Zero Knowledge.
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Basalt Labs is presented as a small fictional quantum-computing team working on neutral-atom hardware and the software around it. The page gives the invented company operational texture through a Colorado location, two named founders, a short list of research collaborators, and a refusal to sell machine time. Its hiring language is paired with an explicit warning that the laboratory and its employees do not exist, keeping the site firmly in the realm of novel-world construction.
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