  The technological world is in the midst of a quantum computing and quantum
information revolution. Since Richard Feynman's famous "plenty of room at the
bottom" lecture, hinting at the notion of novel devices employing quantum
mechanics, the quantum information community has taken gigantic strides in
understanding the potential applications of a quantum computer and laid the
foundational requirements for building one. We believe that the next
significant step will be to demonstrate a quantum memory, in which a system of
interacting qubits stores an encoded logical qubit state longer than the
incorporated parts. Here, we describe the important route towards a logical
memory with superconducting qubits, employing a rotated version of the surface
code. The current status of technology with regards to interconnected
superconducting-qubit networks will be described and near-term areas of focus
to improve devices will be identified. Overall, the progress in this exciting
field has been astounding, but we are at an important turning point where it
will be critical to incorporate engineering solutions with quantum
architectural considerations, laying the foundation towards scalable
fault-tolerant quantum computers in the near future.
