Celebrating a hundred years of quantum mechanics, the United Nations has declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. This is not only an occasion to step back and marvel at the progress, it also raises the question: OK, so what's next? 

One part of looking back is to gain perspective: what actually were the steps that led Heisenberg to see this incredible breakthrough – but important to us today - are the best trappings of Quantum Mechanics now taken, making the future one of applied Quantum Mechanics and problem solving,  or are we, as I believe, still in the fray of the Quantum Revolution?   Hows that? Well if we take our cue from the classical physics revolution, which from Gallileo to Maxwell, required 250 years to reveal simple basic concepts such as energy and heat,  it is equally plausible that key concepts in our understanding of the quantum still lie ahead. To use the sports analogy, despite the amazing score, we may only be at the half-time show.

So what to expect in the second half?   The challenges facing us today, epitomized eloquently by our failure to quantize gravity, the mysteries of dark matter, energy and quantum information challenge physics to its core, but I will argue that in addition there are several laboratory-scale problems of equal importance with the capacity to shed light on our fundamental understanding of quantum matter in profound and intriguing ways.