Damian Conway is one of those names in the Perl and Raku world that almost doesn't need mentioning. He is one of the most prolific contributors to CPAN and was foundational in the design of Raku (then Perl 6). One of his more interesting proposals came in RFC223 on Superpositions, which suggested making his Perl Quantum::Superposition's features available in the core of the language.
In the quantum world, there are measurable things that can exist in multiple states — simultaneously — until the point in time in which we measure them. For computer scientists, perhaps the most salient application of this is in qubits which, as a core element of quantum computing, threaten to destroy encryption as we know it, if quantum supremacy is borne out.
At the end of the day, though, for us it means being able to treat multiple values as if they were a single value so long as never actually need there to only be one, at which point we get a single state f