Thinking On Paper
Episodes
Astroscale, Space Junk & The SpaceX Monopoly: Space to Grow book club
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 2009 an active American satellite collided with a defunct Russian one at 22,300 miles per hour. The resulting debris field created over 150,000 pie...
At 100 Qubits, Quantum Stops Being Theory. Pranav Gokhale Says That's 2028
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
For thirty-five years, quantum computing has been five years away. In this episode, Infelqtion CTO Pranav Gokhale makes the case that 2028 is the year...
Can NASA Survive the Commercial SpaceX Era? Space To Grow: Part 3
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Why does it cost NASA $4.2 billion per launch when SpaceX predicts Starship could do the same job for as little as $10 million?In the Space to Grow Bo...
The 1st Hotel On The Moon | Skyler Chan, CEO & Founder GRU
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Skyler Chan is the 22-year old founder and CEO of GRU. And he's building a hotel on the moon.The plan is to send a 10kg payload to the lunar sur...
Nvidia & Infleqtion: Why Every GPU Will Have a Quantum Engine
23 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Infleqtion and Nvidia solved the problem that has blocked quantum computing for 35 years. Pranav Gokhale and Sam Stanwyck explain exactly what broke, ...
Philip Johnston TED Talk: StarCloud's Plan to Move Data Centers to Space - Reaction Video
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Philip Johnston is the CEO of Starcloud. He put an Nvidia H100 chip in space and gave a TED talk about it. As you do if you're responsible for bui...
Lunar Dust to Democracy: NASA Scientist Dr. Philip Metzger On The Economics Of Space
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The space economy will grow to $100 billion, but concentrated ownership could end democracy. Dr. Philip Metzger Thinks On Paper about why technical pr...
The Waymo Moment for Drones: Iona, Privacy And Logistics
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Iona delivery drones are not your typical multi-propeller drone. They're small planes with a bathtub-sized cargo bay, but take off vertically, the...
Prompting Vs Asking: Why the Blank Sheet Is What Forces You to Think
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Can you use AI to think better or think more critically? Philosopher Pia Lauritzen says no. The second we give up to the shortcut use AI, we are letti...
AI-Generated Music Without Stealing: Maths, Vectors & Beats
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We taught technology to generate music before we taught it how to assign fair credit to musicians. Nicholas Ponari explains why Overtune rejects one-p...
Analog Vs Digital Marketing in 2026: Funnels Don't Exist and Your Customer is OpenAI
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Marketing funnels don't exist. They never did. The internet just convinced us they were real. Meta, Google, OpenAI and a supporting cast of billionair...
NVIDIA's Bridge Between Classical and Quantum Computers - QPUs in Data Centers
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Kinsella runs Infleqtion, a company building quantum computers. The biggest misconception about quantum computing is that it will replace classic...
Book Club: Space Economics - Why NASA's $4B ISS Loses Money
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The ISS costs $4 billion per year and has no business model. Planet built satellites from laptop batteries. Bigelow spent 20 years on inflatable modul...
Why Two-Thirds of Data Centers Fail (And How AI Fixes It)
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Shapol led rocket launches before building AI to prevent the wrong switch from crashing your favorite apps. Two-thirds of data center outages are caus...
How SpaceX Cut Launch Costs 97%: Space to Grow - Book Club, Ep. 1
19 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
SpaceX launches 135 rockets a year. NASA's shuttles launched five. SpaceX delivers cargo to orbit for $2,800 per kilo. The shuttles cost $90,000. ...
Space Solar Power: Can We Really Get Free Energy From Orbit? | Ex-SpaceX Engineer Explains
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Can space-based solar power actually give humanity free, unlimited energy by 2030?John Bucknell, former SpaceX Senior Propulsion Engineer on the Rapto...
Quantum Clocks on Submarines with Infleqtion CEO Matthew Kinsella │ Neutral Atom Quantum Computing
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Kinsella, CEO of Infleqtion, explains how neutral atom quantum computing works at room temperature, and why the UK just put quantum clocks on ...
Augmented Reality at Snapchat, Salesforce, and The Irish Alcatraz
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Eight billion uses of augmented reality happen on Snapchat every day. Salesforce uses AR to onboard new staff. In this episode, Thinking on Paper look...
52 Things We Didn't Know In 2025 (But Learned Thanks To Tom Whitwell)
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Every Technology podcast predicts the future. For the last episode of 2025, Thinking On Paper is going backwards. And it's not even our own work, ...
The Dangerous Illusion of Seemingly Conscious AI │ Mustafa Suleyman on Why Appearance Is the Threat
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The machines do not need to wake up. The risk is the illusion of seemingly conscious AI.When a generative AI system convincingly claims subjective exp...
Quantum Computing Will Eat The World │ Joe Fitzsimons, Horizon Quantum
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Quantum computing doesn’t make computers a bit faster. It changes what’s possible.In this short episode, Joe Fitzsimons explains why quantum progr...
When Making Music Got Easy: Why Taste Matters More Than Ever │ Nicholas Ponari - Overtune Music
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When making music took heartbreak, a thousand late nights and bleeding fingers, effort was the gatekeeper. Now AI lets anyone generate a song, judgeme...
The Electric Stack: Why the World Runs on Chinese Batteries and Magnets – Part 1
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
China controls every Tesla, drone and electric toothbrush. Why? Because it produces over half of the world’s lithium-ion batteries and more than 90%...
US Housing Crisis: The Real Reason You Can’t Afford a Home | Stable Living - Chris Moeller
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The median US income is $68,000. Only 13% of the US workforce earns a salary; everyone else is paid by the hour or hustling in the gig economy. The me...
What Is Consciousness? │ Quantum Panpsychism, Federico Faggin & Irreducible: A Book Club
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is consciousness? You think I'm arrogant enough to sit here and tell you how to think about the inner workings of your mind... No... I'm ...
Enshitification of the Internet: Trust, Funnels and Brands in the AI Age │ Nick Richtsmeier
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do brands build trust when the internet has decayed into into AI-driven slop and tripe? The systems that once promised connection now work as mirr...
AI and the Illusion of Intelligence: Born to Think │ Pia Lauritzen
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you born to think, or built to think? What if the real Turing Test was never about technology, but about us? Philosopher Pia Lauritzen breaks down...
The First Pulsar: Jocelyn Burnell, Aliens And The Lost Nobel Prize
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What makes neutron stars so fascinating that they once fooled astronomers into thinking they were aliens? In this episode of Thinking On Paper, we si...
The Car That Stops You From Making a Fatal Overtake: The Sensor That Sees the Crash You Can’t
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone thinks they are a great driver. Most drivers think they can judge a safe overtake. They can’t. In this Thinking On Paper shot, Barry Lunn b...
5 Steps To Make A Quantum Computer │ DiVincenzo's Criteria, IonQ & Trapped Ion Qubits Explained
22 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if someone handed you the recipe for a quantum computer? In this episode, that’s exactly what happens.Coleman Collins of IonQ breaks down DiVin...
Electronics That Survive Space | Power Conversion, Radiation & Off-World Industry: Danny Andreev, CEO Sunburn Schematics
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Radiation-hardened space electronics don’t get splashy headlines, but nothing in orbit works without them. Starship, the ISS, Amazon’s Project Kui...
Quantum Consciousness: The Man Who Saved the World from a Computer Error | Irreducible Book Club
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If the military had been using AIs in 1983, everyone would be dead. Machines will never be conscious, and that animal instinct saved the world. This ...
Humanity Centered Design: Don Norman Explains The Principles Of Better Design
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Don Norman gives the clearest, most accessible explanation of humanity centered design there is. He invented the concept, after all.In this Thinking O...
5 Billion Humanoids By 2030 | Starcloud CEO Unravels The Fermi Paradox, Tesla Robots & Data Centers In Space
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can humanoids dance? Or will the billions of Tesla human robots choose to forgo such technological frivolity? And why is the universe so empty? Where ...
AI Agents 101: What They Are, Who’s Building Them, and What’s Next
15 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI agents can read feeds, make decisions, coordinate with other agents, and even speak on your behalf. In this short conversation, Andrew Hill breaks...
Space Electronics Never Sounded THIS Good! | Spacex, Mars And Music
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To survive in space, you don’t just need engineers. You need a musician. Ideally, a guitarist. Fortunately, the technology for this exists. Jeremy a...
A Technology-Ish Podcast: The Thinking On Paper Trailer
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Curious Minds Learn about THE REAL IMPACT of technology 👇 Thinking on Paper goes holistic. Your learning goes ballistic.Other ways to connect with ...
The Kafkaesque Lie of “AI Ethics”: Carissa Véliz On AI Rules & Democracy
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI Ethics is a mirage straight from a Kafka novel. Questions of justice, principles and the rule of law are incompatible with machine learning. Machin...
AI Is Supercharging Big Oil │ Microsoft, Enabled Emissions And The Data That Doesn't Lie
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Exxon & Chevron are using Microsoft AI to extract more oil. Faster, cheaper. The goal? The extraction of every last drop of oil.Holly and Will Alp...
What Is a Spin Qubit? One Electron, Two States | Silicon Qubits, Superposition & Quantum Computing
08 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is a spin qubit? Brandon Severin, CEO of Conductor Quantum, explains it like this: put a single electron in a magnetic field and it behaves like ...
Stablecoins vs Visa & Mastercard: Can Crypto Really Take Down The Banks?
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mind Blowing to the banks, but Stablecoins already move more volume than Visa and Mastercard combined! There's a financial revolution in the air, and ...
USA V China: Helium 3 And The POLITICS of Space:
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
China built its space station Tiangong in three years after being excluded from the ISS program. It landed on the Moon in 2020 and 2024, returning sam...
The AI Music Boom: Hits Without Humans | Music Attribution, Credits & Royalties
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI Music is exploding. In fact, you're probably listening to AI generated music and don't even realise it. But rest assured, the musicians who...
The Quantum Computing Operating System & Spin Qubits | Brandon Severin, Conductor Quantum
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If quantum computers already exist, why can’t they do anything useful? The issue isn’t quantum mechanics, it’s control. Every qubit must be tune...
Helium-3, The Lunar Resource China And America Are Racing To Space For | Fusion, Quantum Computing And The History Of The Space Race
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Helium-3 is essential for fusion energy, quantum computing, and tracking nuclear weapons. The U.S. has just 29 kilograms, and there may be as little a...
Your Privacy is your SUPERPOWER │Carissa Veliz - Democracy, Ethics & The Fall Of Rome
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI ethics sounds reassuring. Carissa Véliz argues it’s a contradiction: you can’t build “ethical” systems on surveillance. The result isn’t...
What Do We Want Humans To Be? (And How TECHNOLOGY Gets Us There) │ Tech Optimism, Kindness & Curisosity
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In early 2025, Kevin Kelly, one of the great technological philosophers of our time, joined Mark & Jeremy to Think on Paper. Before he left, he as...
The Trillion Dollar BUSINESS Of Space | Mark Boggett, CEO Seraphim
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The space economy is set to reach $1.8 trillion by 2035. Everyone talks about rockets. Almost no one talks about the infrastructure that connects orbi...
Generative AI Use In UK Schools: Division, Lesson Plans And The Demise Of Critical Thinking
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How is generative AI reshaping classrooms? According to the Alan Turing Institute’s national report, one in four UK children aged 8 to 12 now use to...
CHEAP Space Manufacturing & Self-Replicating 3d-Printed Humanoids
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Twelve metric tons and a SpaceX rocket. That’s all it would take to begin building industry on the Moon. Factories would rise. Humanoids would adapt...
Is AI For EVERYONE A Silly Pipe Dream (Or A Genuine End To POVERTY?)
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rajeev Kapur believes we’re standing at the edge of a new enlightenment. One powered not by steam or electricity, but by the democratization of arti...
SPACE-BASED SOLAR POWER Explained... In 8 Minutes
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, the idea of harvesting solar energy from orbit belonged to science fiction. The theory was sound—collect sunlight in space and beam it ...
Thousands Of Lives RUINED In Sam Altman's Corporate ARMS RACE for AGI | Karen Hao Book Club - Part 2
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a book summary of Empire of AI by karen Hao. The book asks whether Sam Altman and the Open AI gang are sociopaths with no regard for humanity ...
Quantum Computers: IBM CTO Reveals the Truth About Their Mistakes │ Short Thoughts #3
13 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Quantum computers are noisy and unstable. Even simple operations are error-prone, around 1 in every 1,000 goes wrong.How do we get from here to quantu...
Personal AI: The Man Who Invented Chatbots Is Now Creating AIs That Will Live Forever│ Rob LoCascio │ Social Media, Legacy & Data │ Privacy, Control, Open AI
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if you could use your own AI to keep speaking to your loved ones, even after they’re gone (and you’re dead)?Rob LoCascio is the entrepreneur ...
Mustafa Suleyman: The Dangers of Seemingly Conscious AI
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, warns of Seemingly Conscious AI (SCAI), AIs that imitate memory, empathy, and selfhood so convincingly that peo...
Emotional AI & The Search For Spock│ Kevin Kelly - Short Thoughts #2
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Futurist and Wired founder Kevin Kelly believes the arrival of emotional AI will 'make people go bananas'.Kelly explains how coding emotions into AI w...
The Thinking On Paper Trailer
06 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Fielding and Jeremy Gilbertson sit down with CEOs, founders, scientists, and cultural thinkers to ask the hard questions about AI, quantum, and W...
The Climate Crisis Microsoft Won’t Talk About │ Enabled Emissions
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft says it’s going green. But insiders reveal its AI is powering Big Oil, making fossil fuel extraction faster, cheaper, and bigger than ever...
The Empire of AI: Sam Altman’s Rise and the Battle for Power - Part 1
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI was founded to build AI “for the good of humanity.” But behind the mission statement lies a story of money, power, and control.In this Book...
The Age of AI Agents Has Begun, And Trust Will Decide the Future | Andrew Hill, CEO Recall
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Forget AI chatbots. The next wave is swarms of agents. Digital entities that can act, coordinate, and even build other agents. For you. ChatGPT will a...
All You Need Is LOVE - The Meaning of Life | Federico Faggin, Irreducible Book Club - Chapter 13
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1971 Federico Faggin produced the world's first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4001. But he wasn't finished. A few years later he started mak...
Quantum Actors: Probability, Consciousness, and Reality | Federico Faggin - Irreducible Book Club, Chapter 12
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hold on to your consciousness. In Chapter 12 of Irreducible, Federico Faggin battles classical assumptions: probability, the block universe and maths ...
AI Customer Service That Feels Human | Momntum CEO, Brian Kenny Outlines A Radical Future | Emotional AI, Creativity, Memory & Trust
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Customer service is a tricky one. It's ripe for an AI takeover, but 20 million people worldwide work in the industry. 95% of the industry is salar...
Space Based Solar Power: Politics, Data Centers, and the Global Race for Energy | Martin Soltau, Space Solar CEO & Founder
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There is an energy crisis. There is an environment crisis. And the two - sooner rather than later - are going to collide. Humanity will have to make s...
Dario Amodei: AI Utopia in 5 Years, or the End of Human Control? | Machines of Loving Grace | AI Safety, AGI & Consciousness
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy and Mark dissect Dario Amodei’s essay Machines of Loving Grace. Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic and predicts - if all goes right - an AI utopi...
Federico Faggin: Is the Universe Created by Conscious Selves? | Irreducible Book Club - Chapter 10 | Consciousness, Free Will & AI
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Chapter 10 of Irreducible, Federico Faggin, Mark and Jeremy Think on Paper about the real architecture behind consciousness: The Seity. Quantum gre...
The Universe and the Meaning of Life | Federico Faggin, Irreducible Book Club - Chapter 9 | Consciousness, AI & Free Will
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Consciousness, life and free will exist from the very beginning as properties of the holistic whole (The One). According to Federico Faggin, the inani...
Zen, Consciousness, and the Future of AI | Ram Srinivasan - The Conscious Machine, Future of Work & AGI
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can AI ever be aware? Can it be conscious, and if so, what would that mean for business and the future of work? In this week's show, Jeremy and Ma...
AI Compute: The Next Trillion-Dollar Asset Class | Kony, GAIB | GPUs, Crypto, Blockchain & DeFi
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kony Kwong, CEO and Founder of GAIB joins Mark and Jeremy to Think On Paper about GPU backed stablecoins and investing in AI infrastructure.GAIB turns...
Inside IBM’s $30 Billion Bet: Quantum Computing, Starling & the Road to Fault Tolerance | Oliver Dial, CTO IBM Quantum
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Oliver Dial, CTO of IBM Quantum, joins Mark and Jeremy to Think on Paper about Starling. IBM’s first quantum processor designed for real-time quantu...
Neutron Stars, Quantum Curiosity & Science Writing | Katia Moskvitch, European Science Writer of the Year | Creativity, Astrophysics & Quantum Mechanics
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Katia Moskvitch was European Science Writer of the year. She wrote for WIRED, Nature, and the BBC, then walked away from it all to research Neutron St...
What Is Consciousness? Federico Faggin, Irreducible (Chapter 8) | Free Will, AI & Meaning
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Did consciousness exist before life itself? Is it fundamental to the universe? Mark and Jeremy continue their book club exploration of Irreducible, by...
Robby Yung, CEO Animoca Brands: The Web3 Cheat Code | Crypto Gaming, Stablecoins & Digital Identity | SONY | What Should Humans Be?
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If the hype vanished tomorrow, what would Web3 still need?”Animoca Brands backs almost every household name in Web3—from The Sandbox to Dapper Lab...
How to Write a Book With AI | Generative Writing, Copyright & the Future of Publishing | AI, Writing & IP Dangers
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Would you read a book written by an AI? We did. And it wasn’t just text prediction. It was story. Pacing. Theme. Character arcs. No human prompts, n...
The Nature Of Consciousness: Federico Faggin, Irreducible (Chapter 7)
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Would you let your children have an AI boyfriend or girlfriend? We're reading Irreducible, by Federico Faggin. It's Chapter 7 and Mark and Jer...
If Technology Is So Smart, Why Does It Keep Forgetting About People? | Khang Nguyen Trieu on Tech for Good & Digital Ethics | AI, Ethics & Humanity
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is technology for good anything more than a marketing strategy?Technology shapes everything. From how you work and connect to how you make decisions. ...
Thinking On Paper: The Technology Podcast For Disruptors And Curious Minds™
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A podcast for people who refuse to let algorithms, headlines, or influencers do their thinking for them.What happens when technology moves faster than...
Why Your Business Should Use AI Like Excel | Ajay Malik, CEO StudioX AI | No-Code, Adoption & the Future of Work
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Shopify. Duolingo. Box. Meta. One by one, they’ve all issued the same order: Don’t give it to a human until you’ve asked the machine.This isn’...
Life Is Both Quantum & Classical: Federico Faggin, Irreducible (Chapter 6)
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Chapter 6 of Irreducible, by Federico Faggin, Mark and Jeremy get into what makes living cells tick and why machines will never be conscious.What i...
Kevin Kelly on Aliens, AI & the Future of Humanity | Founding Editor of WIRED | Creativity, Consciousness & Being SPOCK
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Kelly joins Mark and Jeremy to think on paper about technology and nature, decentralized systems, and the real-world challenges of AI, creativit...
The Nature Of Information: Federico Faggin, Irreducible (Chapter 4 & 5)
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the 26th september, 1983, in the midst of the Cold War, the world was saved from nuclear disaster because of a human. An Ai wouldn't have seen ...
Beaming Energy From Space With Lasers | Sanjay Vijendran, Ex-ESA Orbital Solar Lead & Director, Space Energy Insights | The Past, Present & Future of Space-Based Solar Power
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Space-Based Solar Power has lived in science fiction for decades. But now, with falling launch costs, autonomous robotics, and precision manufacturing...
Decentralized AI: How You Can Grab The Power Back From Mark Zuckerberg And His Big Tech Friends
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI and Google just upgraded their arsenals, trained on everything from your search history to your creative work. You didn’t opt in. You didn’...
The Nature Of Machines: Irreducible, Federico Faggin (Chapter 3)
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can a machine, no matter how complex, ever truly feel or understand? Can AI ever be conscious?We're reading Chapter 3 of Irreducible by Federico F...
Burn the Script: How NFTs, AI, and Rage Built an Emmy-Nominated Sci-Fi Series
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hollywood Said No. So He Built a New System.They didn’t want RZR. Too risky. Too smart. Too original.So David Bianchi said screw it.He minted it, fu...
Federico Faggin: The Nature of Quantum Reality | Irreducible (Ch. 1 & 2) | Consciousness, AI & Free Will
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're reading chapter 1 and 2 of Irreducible by Federico Faggin. Slowly. Because this is deep. What is consciousness? Is the universe conscious, and i...
Inside World ID and the Fight for Digital Identity | Ajay Patel, Head Of World ID At Tools for Humanity | Crypto, Blockchain & Privacy
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ajay Patel, Head of World ID at Tools for Humanity, joins Mark and Jeremy to Think on Paper about how identity might be rebuilt for the AI age. From i...
The Silicon Curtain Is Closing. Welcome to the Post-AI World: (Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari)
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There’s no going back.Whatever this book has taught us, there was a pre-AI world and there is a post-AI world. And however it plays out, nothing wil...
Will AI Obey the Dictator or Expose Him? (Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari)
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI doesn’t sleep. It doesn’t feel fear. It can’t be tortured into silence.So what happens when regimes built on fear try to rule through machine...
Web3 Marketing Is a Joke. Diego Borgo Shows How to Fix It
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s be honest. Most Web3 marketing has been a dumpster fire.Hype over strategy. Jargon over value. Brands pushing NFTs like they’re limited-edit...
Beyond the Qubit Count: Inside IonQ’s Fight for the Quantum Future
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone’s screaming “quantum supremacy.”IBM. Microsoft. Google. D-Wave. IonQ. Billion-dollar roadmaps, competing architectures, and more qubit ...
Data Centers In Space: Why StarCloud Is Launching GPUs Into Orbit │ Space-X Launch Costs, Energy Costs & Space Junk │ Low Earth Orbit, Latency, Aliens, Space Elevators, Material Science
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Philip Johnston, co-founder of StarCloud, is building data centers in space. Forty-megawatt GPUS that unfold in orbit, bleed heat into the vacuum, and...
Will AI Take Your Job, or Just Your Soul? (Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari)
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chapter 9 of Nexus doesn’t mess around.It asks if democracy can survive the data age, if creativity is just statistical noise, and whether AI is com...
AI in Orbit: Who Controls the Satellites Above Your Head?
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Disaster response in minutes. Wildfires predicted before the first spark. Cities watched from above with godlike precision.That’s the sales pitch. B...
Paperclips, Stalin, and the AI That Loves You to Death
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Could AI’s mission to help us end in our destruction?In Chapter 8 of Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari draws a line between Stalin’s applause tests and alg...
Ethereum Is Broken. STXN Wants to Fix It Before It Eats Itself
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One in five Ethereum transactions fails. You lose gas. You lose time. You lose faith.Enter STXN. Programmable money. Smart transactions. Blockchain wi...
You’re Being Watched. The AI Doesn’t Need Permission
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Your phone is listening. Your apps are watching. One billion cameras track your every move. And now the AI knows what to do with it.This isn’t scien...
When AI Writes Your Myths, Moves Your Markets, and Messes With Your Mind
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when your mind isn’t just influenced by AI—but reprogrammed by it?In this episode of Thinking on Paper, Mark and Jeremy tackle Chapte...
Your Job Is a Commodity. Your Humanity Better Not Be
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI makes outputs cheap. Prompts are everywhere. Execution is instant. So where does that leave you? If your work can be replicated by a $20 model and ...