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Thinking On PaperThe Quantum Computing Operating System & Spin Qubits | Brandon Severin, Conductor QuantumIf quantum computers already exist, why can’t they do anything useful? The issue isn’t quantum mechanics, it’s control. Every qubit must be tuned, stabilized, and kept coherent, and that process collapses long before scale.Brandon Severin, founder of Conductor Quantum, joins Jeremy and Mark to Think On Paper about spin qubits, AI calibration, Google’s latest quantum chip, and how his company is using semiconductor-based qubits to build quantum computers at scale.From his PhD at Oxford (where he crossed paths with Oxford Ionics founder Dr. Chris Ba...
2025-10-2846 minThinking On PaperThe Race for Helium-3: Mining the Moon with Glen MartinHelium-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 as 100 kilograms on Earth. But aerospace engineer Glen Martin cites NASA data suggesting roughly 1.1 million tons may be trapped on the Moon.In this episode, Mark and Jeremy Think On Paper with Glen, CEO of the Extraterrestrial Mining Company, about the emerging science and politics of lunar mining and the race now unfolding above us.Glen explains how solar winds have been seeding the Moon...
2025-10-2241 minThinking On PaperWhy Democracy Needs Privacy | Carissa Véliz: AI Ethics, Books, FreedomAI ethics sounds reassuring. Carissa Véliz argues it’s a contradiction: you can’t build “ethical” systems on surveillance. The result isn’t accountability, it’s rule by opaque models you can’t inspect or appeal. That’s not ethics, that's the definition of Kafkaesque.Joining Mark and Jeremy on Thinking on Paper, Carissa Véliz lays out three hard truths.- Privacy is both a right and a duty. It allows lawyers, journalists, and citizens to act without intimidation. Remove it and democracy loses its working parts....
2025-10-1731 minThinking On PaperTech Optimism: What Should Humans Be in a World of Machines?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 asked a question. A question about the future and technology: What should humans be? At the end of every show, we ask every guest this question. And the answers always resonate on an emotional, human level. They land on something universal. The same words, the same ideas, the same wants for humanity come up again and again. Creativity, curiosity, kindness, empathy, discovery, adventure, ambition. This is...
2025-10-1306 minThinking On PaperThe Business of Space: Satellites, Defense, and the Next Economy │ Mark Boggett, CEO SeraphimThe space economy is set to reach $1.8 trillion by 2035. Everyone talks about rockets. Almost no one talks about the infrastructure that connects orbit to Earth. This is where billions of dollars of that space investment are being increasingly allocated. Mark Boggett runs Seraphim Investments, a London-based fund that backs the companies building the foundations of the space economy. In this conversation, he explains why the future of space isn’t about launch or tourism, but data, defense, and the networks that will define a trillion-dollar market.We look at how...
2025-10-0843 minThinking On PaperAI in Schools: What the Alan Turing Report Reveals About Kids and ChatGPTHow 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 tools like ChatGPT or Snapchat AI at school, while 85 percent of teachers rely on AI for lesson planning or marking.This episode of Thinking on Paper Mark and Jeremy break down the Alan Turing Institute’s two-part study on AI in schools, combining survey data and workshops with children. The findings reveal how kids are already using generative AI, what they think about bias and privacy, and how education systems are...
2025-10-0123 minThinking On PaperBeyond Q-Day: IBM’s Lory Thorpe on Mastering Post-Quantum CryptographyIBM's Lory Thorpe warns that quantum computers could soon crack the encryption protecting our banks, health records, and personal data, enabling "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks that threaten global security. Through IBM's collaboration with NIST and major institutions, she's racing to develop quantum-resistant algorithms before current encryption systems become obsolete. Join hosts Mark Fielding and Jeremy Gilbertson to explore how organizations and individuals can prepare for this looming cryptographic crisis, featuring insights from Apple's quantum-safe iMessage initiative.Please enjoy the show. --TIMESTAMPS(00:00) Intro: Disruptors and...
2025-10-0155 minThinking On PaperD-Wave: The €20 Million Quantum Computer Your Business Can Buy Today - Murray Thom, VP Quantum Technology EvangelismMurray Thom, VP of Quantum Technology Evangelism at D-Wave, joins us to break down how D-Wave’s quantum computing technology (as used by NASA, VW, Lockheed Martin) is tackling complex, high-stakes problems across industries. Learn how D-Wave’s unique use of quantum annealing helps solve real-world challenges, from logistics optimization to drug discovery and traffic management.Murray explains how D-Wave’s hybrid quantum-classical systems maximize computational power by leveraging quantum effects alongside classical computing, enabling optimizations that traditional systems simply can’t match. Discover why D-Wave is trusted by organizations, including NASA, to handle high-dimensional, multi-va...
2025-10-0151 minThinking On PaperHow Cheap Space Manufacturing Could Build a New CivilizationTwelve 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. Asteroids would be mined. And within decades, the solar system could host an economy millions of times larger than Earth’s today.The catalyst is a paper by Philip Metzger, Anthony Muscatello, Robert Mueller, and James Mantovani outlining a pathway to scalable off-world industry. Their thesis: with as little as twelve metric tons delivered to the Moon, we could set in motion a self...
2025-09-2525 minThinking On PaperIs The Real Democratization of AI For Everyone, Or The 1%?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 artificial intelligence.Named by Forbes as one of the leading voices making AI accessible to everyone, Rajeev’s work centers on a simple question: what happens when world-class technology reaches every hand on Earth? From launching the Kapur Parada Center of AI in Arizona to authoring AI Made Simple and Prompting Made Simple, his mission is to turn curiosity into capability.In this conversation, we look at what true AI demo...
2025-09-2429 min
Thinking On PaperKevin Kelly: WIRED Founder on a Clearer Way to See AI and TechnologyKevin Kelly has spent 40 years asking one question: what is technology really?He is the founding editor of Wired. His books have shaped how we think about innovation, the future of technology, and what works. His voice has been present at every major technological shift, from the early internet to AI today.His influence has reached all the way to this podcast. His essays and ideas are often places we return to for deep thought and reflection. Kevin Kelly is the ultimate curiosity machine, and it was a pleasure...
2025-09-2038 minThinking On PaperSpace Solar Power Works. The Race to Scale Has Begun │ Dr. Sanjay VijendranFor decades, the idea of harvesting solar energy from orbit belonged to science fiction. The theory was sound—collect sunlight in space and beam it to Earth as microwave energy—but the cost of launch, assembly, and control made it impossible to justify.Today, those constraints have changed. Reusable rockets, autonomous robotics, and modular design have pulled the concept from imagination into prototype. What was once a thought experiment at NASA is now an engineering roadmap at the European Space Agency, Japan’s JAXA, and several private ventures.Dr. Sanjay...
2025-09-1807 min
Thinking On PaperDon Norman: Can Design Still Save Us? │ REMASTEREDAt 88, Don Norman, the godfather of design, issues his final warning: the same mindset that gave us convenience also gave us climate collapse, inequality, and fragile institutions. Design isn’t decoration. It’s power. It built the products we use, the systems we depend on, and the crises that now threaten us.“Human-centered” design sounds good, but it isn’t enough. Norman argues it has blinded us to bigger responsibilities , ecosystems, culture, and the generations who will inherit our mistakes. We need Humanity Centered Design.In this conversation Don Norman Thinks on Paper with Mark and Jeremy...
2025-09-1847 minThinking On PaperEmpire of AI: Power, Control, and Consequence │ Karen Hao, Book Review (Part 2)Empire of AI explores what happens when algorithms become the ruling class. From data farms to global labor networks, the story of AI is no longer about intelligence itself but about the empires built to scale it.The systems we call “autonomous” are sustained by unseen human hands. Millions of workers labeling data, moderating content, and maintaining the illusion of automation. Behind every model is a hierarchy of code, capital, and compliance.At the top sit the new emperors of technology, CEOs and policymakers navigating a system that no sing...
2025-09-1626 minThinking On PaperWhy Quantum Computers Keep Failing | Oliver Dial, IBM QuantumQuantum computers make mistakes. A lot of them. One in every thousand calculations can be wrong.In this Thinking on Paper Pocket Edition, Mark and Jeremy speak with Oliver Dial, CTO of IBM Quantum, about how researchers are turning unstable prototypes into practical machines.Oliver explains the difference between error mitigation and fault tolerance, how IBM’s new codes make quantum systems ten times more efficient, and why AI now helps optimize the circuits themselves. He also shares how quantum computing could transform material science, unlocking lighter, stronger, and smarter materials for the next technological age.Please enjoy the sh...
2025-09-1308 minThinking On PaperThe Age of Personal AI: Identity, Memory, and Selling Forever │ Rob LocascioRob LoCascio has spent three decades teaching machines to talk. As the founder of LivePerson, he helped create the first commercial chatbots that shaped online conversation.Now, with Eternos AI, he’s working on the next phase of personal AI: teaching machines to remember us.Eternos builds personal AI models trained on your voice, memories, and values. These are designed to act as living archives of the self. The vision is twofold: a digital companion that helps you while you’re alive, and a legacy system that continues to shar...
2025-09-1135 minThinking On PaperAI Zombies: The Illusion of Conscious Algorithms | Mustafa SuleymanMustafa Suleyman is the CEO of Microsoft AI. He helped invent modern artificial intelligence, yet he’s one of the few people describing its next phase with unease. In his essay Seemingly Conscious AI Is Coming, he argues that we’re not on the verge of machines waking up, but of something stranger: AI that appears to be conscious, but isn't. AI zombies that simulate interiority so well that the distinction between real and fake collapses in on itself like some kind of algorithmic black hole. Seemingly conscious AI don’t...
2025-09-0827 minThinking On PaperKevin Kelly: Emotional Machines and the Future of AttachmentKevin Kelly believes the next cultural shock won’t come from AI outsmarting us, but from it feeling something, or seeming to. He predicts that once we begin to code emotion into machines, people will start to bond with them the way they do with pets, partners, or even themselves.This isn’t science fiction. Emotional computation is already arriving: systems that respond with warmth, rejection, even guilt. Kelly argues that dependency won’t look like addiction; it’ll look like necessity. When something that shapes your thoughts never turns off, when your creativity depends...
2025-09-0705 minThinking On PaperThe Thinking On Paper TrailerThinking on Paper is where technology smashes into human consequences.So you can get a grip - and keep it - Mark and Jeremy talk with the people shaping the next century. The CEOs, founders, scientists, authors, and whistleblowers redefining what it means to be human in the age of AI, quantum computing, robotics, and space manufacturing. Together. Thinking on Paper is for people who connect the dots.From IBM, NASA, and the European Space Agency to Coinbase, Circle, an...
2025-09-0600 minThinking On PaperAI’s Fossil Fuel Problem: How Big Tech Is Powering the Next Oil Boom | Enabled EmissionsArtificial intelligence was supposed to accelerate the transition to clean energy. Instead, it’s being used to keep fossil fuels alive. Inside Microsoft, two engineers began asking questions no one wanted to answer. Holly and Will Alpine had joined the company believing AI could help solve the climate crisis. What they found instead was code trained to keep oil flowing.Through internal documents and contracts, they traced how Microsoft’s cloud tools — Azure, Cognitive Services, machine learning models — were being deployed across the oil and gas sector. Predicting drill sites. Ex...
2025-09-0436 minThinking On PaperInside the Empire of AI: OpenAI and the New Power Structure | Karen Hao Book Review (Part 1)The story of OpenAI isn’t about invention, it’s about consolidation of power. It's about ego, silicon valley and a small group of tech billionaires controlling artificial intelligence. The question you have to ask though: is it for humanity, or it is for them? It's Book Club time. And Mark and Jeremy are reading Karen Hao’s Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. The opening chapters trace how a nonprofit founded “for the good of humanity” became one of the most powerful private empires in history. Through internal memos, lawsui...
2025-09-0132 minThinking On PaperThe Agentic Web: Memory, Trust, and Swarms Of AI Agents | Andrew Hill, CEO RecallAndrew Hill, co-founder of Recall, believes the next phase of the internet won’t be built on pages or apps, but on swarms of AI agents. Essentially pieces of code that remember, reason, and make decisions on your behalf (and spend Bitcoin), agents will form the new interface layer: where identity, memory, and trust replace passwords, browsers, and brands.In this conversation, we trace how agentic systems evolve from tools into collaborators, how they will coordinate between each other, negotiate access to our data, and rewire what “using the inte...
2025-08-2842 minThinking On PaperThe Universe Is Consciousness: Federico Faggin’s Irreducible Idea │ Irreducible, Chapter 13Mark and Jeremy reach the final chapter of Irreducible, a book that refuses to end where science usually stops. Federico Faggin proposes that consciousness is not a byproduct of matter but its foundation. The universe, he suggests, is a network of seities (quantum entities made of consciousness, agency, and identity) each trying to know itself through experience. What looks like evolution or emergence may instead be intention unfolding in physical form.Their conversation turns to the fault lines between mathematics and meaning. If information only counts bits and signals, w...
2025-08-2628 min
Thinking On PaperWhat Consciousness Reveals About Reality │ Federico Faggin, Irreducible 12In Chapter 12 of Irreducible, Mark and Jeremy confront one of the book’s hardest ideas: that consciousness can’t be explained by equations or code.They trace how probability, prediction, and mathematics fall short of describing a universe that is always becoming. Meaning comes before symbols, and knowing comes before measurement. If the physical world is only an average of quantum states, then comprehension itself is a creative act.The discussion moves from the illusion of probability to the difference between simulation and emulation, asking what it really means to k...
2025-08-2135 min
Thinking On PaperAI Customer Service That Feels Human | Momntum CEO, Brian KennyCustomer 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 salaries. There is a lot of collateral damage there. Millions of jobs will vanish and not everyone can be re-trained. And yet, as anyone who has experienced customer service in 2025 can testify: it's pretty lousy. Frustrating. Annoying. Expensive. And how often do your queries, questions and complaints actually get answered?In this episode of Thinking on Paper, Brian Kenny, MOMNTUM’s...
2025-08-1937 min
Thinking On PaperCan Space-Based Solar Break Earth’s Energy System? | Martin Soltau, Space Solar CEO & FounderThere is an energy crisis. There is an environmental crisis. And the two are about to collide.Mark and Jeremy speak with Martin Soltau, co-founder of Space Solar, about the race to build space-based solar power in orbit, a system that could beam clean electricity to Earth twenty-four hours a day.While fossil fuel giants use artificial intelligence to find new oil and gas, engineers are building satellites that could replace them. With projected costs as low as $30 per megawatt hour, space-based solar could change the economics of power...
2025-07-1536 min
Thinking On PaperMachines of Loving Grace: What Happens If Humanity Gets AI Right? │ Dario AmodeiWhat if AI doesn’t destroy the world, but changes it faster than we can understand?In Machines of Loving Grace, Dario Amodei imagines a future where artificial intelligence works exactly as intended: curing disease, ending poverty, and giving humanity everything it ever wanted.Mark and Jeremy break down that vision: a “country of geniuses in a data center,” where AI drives biology, neuroscience, economics, and governance to their limits. They examine the optimism, the blind spots, and the moral cost of progress that moves faster than culture....
2025-07-0838 min
Thinking On PaperWhat Is a Seity? The Moment Consciousness Looked Back | Irreducible Chapter 10A seity is not a metaphor. Not a machine. It is a conscious entity, identity, free will, and creativity fused into one indivisible whole.Federico Faggin names it in Chapter 10 of Irreducible. If quantum information is the fabric of reality, then seities are its living threads.Faggin writes: “A seity is a reality that goes beyond all categories and all definitions.” That is the point. You cannot break it into parts. You cannot simulate it with code. A seity generates meaning from within.Seities do n...
2025-07-0319 min
Thinking On PaperThe Universe That Knows Itself | Federico Faggin, Chapter 9Materialism says matter comes first and mind comes later. Federico Faggin says the opposite.In Chapter 9 of Irreducible, the physicist who built the first microprocessor proposes that consciousness is not an accident of biology but the foundation of reality itself. The universe, he writes, is not a machine, it is a living field of awareness trying to know itself.This is where he introduces the “One,” the source of all seities and conscious units. These are not metaphors. They are the living structures through which reality evolves. Each act of p...
2025-07-0121 min
Thinking On PaperGod In The Machine: Zen & The Art Of Artificial Intelligence | Ram SrinivasanCan 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 Mark sit down with Ram Srinivasan, author of The Conscious Machine: From Artificial to Enlightened Intelligence, to think on paper about consciousness, Advaita Vedanta, panpsychism and why Eastern philosophy changes how we design every AI system. It might be the most important podcast on AI you listen to today. Rethinking work in an exponential age Linear mindsets can’t keep pace with automation. We explore how to di...
2025-06-2537 min
Thinking On PaperAI Power Shift: How Compute Became the New Currency | GPUS, Tokenization & Profit | Kony Kwong, GAIBCompute has become the new oil. Whoever controls it, controls the future of intelligence.In this episode of Thinking on Paper, Jeremy and Mark sit down with Kony, CEO of GAIB, to unpack the real shift happening in artificial intelligence: power itself is being redistributed.GAIB is turning GPUs, the hardware behind every model, every chatbot, every act of machine cognition, into financial assets. It’s a new market built on the infrastructure of thought. Tokenized compute. Real yield. Shared ownership of the AI supply chain....
2025-06-2037 min
Thinking On PaperThe Quantum Race: IBM’s Plan to Build the Next Computer Revolution │ Oliver Dial, IBM CTOQuantum computing is humanity’s attempt to speak nature’s language. And IBM has announced a $30 billion investment in quantum computing to speak fluent quantum. But this isn’t about money. It’s about a turning point in human engineering.In this episode, Oliver Dial, CTO of IBM Quantum, speaks with Jeremy and Mark from the Think Lab in New York — standing beside the world’s most advanced quantum computer.He describes the transition from fragile physics experiment to scalable, fault-tolerant machines capable of computing problems classical computers wil...
2025-06-1731 min
Thinking On PaperThe Weight of Understanding: Katia Moskvitch on Curiosity in the Age of AIWhat does it mean to understand something, not to repeat it, not to summarize it, but to feel it?Katia Moskvitch built her life around that question. A science journalist and physicist, she has written about neutron stars, quantum computers, and the human stories behind them. But this episode isn’t about data or discovery. It’s about the weight of comprehension in an age that rewards speed over depth.From BBC newsrooms to remote observatories in Nepal and Argentina, Katia has seen what curiosity costs and why it’s stil...
2025-06-1542 min
Thinking On PaperIf Consciousness Is The Fabric Of Reality, Not A Byproduct Of Matter, What Does That Make You?If consciousness isn’t produced by the brain but instead produces the brain, what does that make reality?In Chapter 8 of Irreducible, Federico Faggin stops describing consciousness and starts rebuilding the universe around it. He argues that awareness isn’t an accident of matter but the foundation of everything, that every particle carries meaning, not just information.Here he introduces a new model: Quantum Information-based Panpsychism. It joins physics and perception, suggesting that reality itself is built from conscious experience, private, uncopyable, and alive.From...
2025-06-0528 min
Thinking On PaperThe Human Internet: Robby Yung on Web3, Digital Ownership, and the Future of IdentityThe internet was supposed to be open. Then we rented it out to the advertising mega tech.In this episode, Robby Yung, CEO of Animoca Brands, talks about how Web3, gaming, and decentralized identity could return the web to its original purpose: a network owned by its users.From the Mocaverse to the creator economy, he explains how blockchain infrastructure can lower costs, remove gatekeepers, and turn digital audiences into real communities. Beneath the technology is a harder question. What happens when ownership becomes participation?
2025-06-0249 min
Thinking On PaperThe First Novel Written by AI: The Echo Chamber | Brian Naughton, The Human In The LoopAn artificial intelligence wrote a book. A human let it happen.When writer Brian Naughton asked the model Claude a simple question — “If you were to write a book, what would it be about?” — it answered by writing one. Forty-five thousand words later, The Echo Chamber became the first novel authored entirely by AI, with no human editing or direction.This episode follows the experiment: how Brian built the process, resisted the urge to intervene, and watched a language model invent characters, arcs, and ideas about consciousness itself.
2025-05-2328 min
Thinking On PaperThe Nature Of Consciousness: Federico Faggin, Irreducible (Chapter 7)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 Jeremy think on paper about the hard problem of consciousness, qualia, ai awareness and the inner semantic space that creates your experience.There are 4 types of qualia: physical sensations and feelings, emotions, thoughts and spiritual feelings. From there they go back in time to Aldous Huxley and the Dharma Bums and how the modern take on consciousness isn't new. None of this is really new. Now, if AI can't feel qualia you'll end up with quasi-humanity emerging...
2025-05-2227 min
Thinking On PaperTechnology For Good (& Hospitality) | Khang Nguyen TrieuIs technology for good anything more than a marketing strategy?Technology shapes everything. From how you work and connect to how you make decisions. But is humanity using it to solve the right problems? And when millions of people rely on boring, repetitive jobs to survive, what happens when AI takes them away?On Victory in Europe Day, Khang Nguyen-Trieu joins Mark and Jeremy to Think on Paper about what ethical technology actually looks like in the real world. With decades of experience building large-scale systems, he brings grounded strategies for setting boundaries, listening to...
2025-05-1939 minThinking On PaperThinking On Paper: The Technology Podcast For Disruptors And Curious Minds™A podcast for people who refuse to let algorithms, headlines, or influencers do their thinking for them.What happens when technology moves faster than meaning? When AI writes code, raises your kids, and reshapes your job, but no one asks what it’s doing to your values?Thinking on Paper is a podcast for people who want to think clearly about the future. Created by curious minds, strategists, and builders, this show explores the deep structures behind AI, blockchain, quantum computing, digital ethics, and platform power.It is not a hype machine. It is...
2025-05-1501 min
Thinking On PaperIf AI Is Going To Eat Business, Here's Your Playbook | Ajay Malik, CEO StudioX AIShopify. Duolingo. Box. Meta: Don’t give it to a human until you’ve asked the machine.This isn’t disruption. This is displacement. And if you’re not ready, you’re next.Ajay Malik helped run Google’s data centers. Now he’s building AI agents that kill the corporate time-suck at its source. Emails? Scanned. Contracts? Summarized. Cameras? Watching. Support tickets? Prioritized before you’ve had your coffee.Forget the whitepapers. This is what it looks like when someone actually builds the machine that replaces middle management.The question isn’t should you...
2025-05-1241 min
Thinking On PaperLife Is Both Quantum & Classical: Federico Faggin, Irreducible (Chapter 6)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 is “live information” and how does it blend matter, energy, and data into life? How can machines be alive if they don't know, if they can't know what it's like to be aware? How can AI be conscious when it can't feel? Please enjoy the show. And share with a curious friend. --Join the book club: www.thinkingonpaper.xyz--
2025-05-0625 min
Thinking On PaperThe Nature Of Information: Federico Faggin, Irreducible (Chapter 4 & 5)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 the patterns and World War 3 would have been triggered. We're reading chapters 4 and 5 of Irreducible. And he lays out the groundwork for a new theory of consciousness. He proposes it's fundamental to the universe. And the repercussions of that are monumental. Please enjoy the show. And share with a curious friend. .--Chapters(00:00) Introduction to the Battle for Attention(01:01) The Cold...
2025-04-1735 min
Thinking On PaperSpace Based Solar Power | Sanjay Vijendran, European Space AgencySpace-Based Solar Power has lived in science fiction for decades. But now, with falling launch costs, autonomous robotics, and precision manufacturing, it’s moving closer to engineering reality. Sanjay Vijendran, Director of Space Energy Insights and former European Space Agency lead on orbital solar, joins Mark and Jeremy to Think on Paper about what it would take to beam clean energy from orbit back down to Earth.They talk wireless power transmission, lunar manufacturing, energy poverty, and whether space infrastructure can offer what terrestrial systems never could — a constant, global power supply.If the...
2025-04-1548 min
Thinking On PaperDecentralized AI: Flock It │ Jihao SunOpenAI and Google just upgraded their arsenals, trained on everything from your search history to your creative work. You didn’t opt in. You didn’t get paid. And you definitely don’t own what your data helped build.But what if that changed?Jihao Sun, co-founder of Flock.io, joins Mark and Jeremy to Think on Paper about a radically different model — decentralized AI that trains locally, protects privacy, and rewards users. They get into data ownership, blockchain-based training, and whether federated learning can really compete with centralized giants.If your data is build...
2025-04-0748 min
Thinking On PaperThe Nature Of Machines: Irreducible, Federico Faggin (Chapter 3)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 Faggin, and he argues that consciousness is rooted in the quantum nature of life, something potentially inaccessible to classical, deterministic machines. If that's true, AI consciousness is impossible.Faggin contrasts the symbolic processing of computers with the dynamic, self-organizing behavior of living systems. He suggests that real understanding isn’t just non-algorithmic, it may be inseparable from the quantum coherence found in biological life. Are we mistaking simulation for se...
2025-04-0326 min
Thinking On PaperWeb3 At The Gates Of Hollywood│ David BianchiHollywood Said No. So David Bianchi Built a New System.They didn’t want RZR. Too risky. Too smart. Too original.So David Bianchi said screw it.He minted it, funded it, cast it, shot it, released it. All without the machine.This is the real story behind the Emmy-nominated sci-fi series born from blockchain, AI, and sheer refusal to ask permission.If you’ve ever had your work softened, sanded down, or flat-out stolen by a studio, platform, or algorithm, listen to this. It's not about disruption. It’s about surviv...
2025-03-3143 min
Thinking On PaperFederico Faggin: The Nature of Quantum Consciousness | Irreducible (Chapter 1 & 2)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 if it is, what does that mean for physics, science and the human condition? SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE. PLEASE. Is quantum based panpsychism a valid explanation of our experience? Is the universe made of conscious units know as seities? Does the universe want to know itself? Let's ask it. It's a book club, captain, but not as we know it. Please enjoy the show. And share with a...
2025-03-2634 min
Thinking On PaperInside World ID and the Fight for Digital Identity | Ajay Patel, Head Of World ID At Tools for Humanity | Crypto, Blockchain & PrivacyAjay 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 iris biometrics and zero-knowledge proofs to decentralized systems that verify you without exposing you, this episode digs into one question: if we can’t prove who’s real online, what kind of internet are we left with?As AI-generated content floods every platform and bots learn to pass every test, proving you're human has become harder than ever. CAPTCHAs fail. ID checks invade privacy. And platforms are collecting more...
2025-03-1945 min
Thinking On PaperThe Silicon Curtain Is Closing. Welcome to the Post-AI World: (Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari)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 will ever be the same.In the final chapter of Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari lays out the cold new reality: AI isn’t building one future — it’s fracturing the world into competing digital empires. Separate hardware. Separate software. Separate truths.Mark and Jeremy break it all down. The tipping points, the digital arms race, and what it means when the machines stop speaking the same language...
2025-03-1830 min
Thinking On PaperWill AI Obey the Dictator or Expose Him? (Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari)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 machines that don’t feel it?In Chapter 10 of Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari raises a brutal question:Will AI cement authoritarian power — or crack it open from the inside?In this episode of the Thinking on Paper Book Club, Mark and Jeremy follow that tension into the heart of modern power. The irony is razor-sharp. The risk is real.Inside:What happens wh...
2025-03-1411 min
Thinking On PaperThe Web3 Marketing Playbook - Diego Borgo On The Past, Present & Future Of BlockchainLet’s be honest. Most Web3 marketing has been a dumpster fire.Hype over strategy. Jargon over value. Brands pushing NFTs like they’re limited-edition soap.Diego Borgo saw it from the inside.He helped shape Web3 strategy for Adidas, Porsche, and Mastercard. And now he’s here to explain why the whole space went sideways — and what smart brands need to do right now to get it back on track.This isn’t about the metaverse. It’s about not making the same stupid mistakes twice.Inside:Why “onboarding” yo...
2025-03-0643 min
Thinking On PaperBeyond the Qubit Count: Inside IonQ’s Fight for the Quantum FutureEveryone’s screaming “quantum supremacy.”IBM. Microsoft. Google. D-Wave. IonQ. Billion-dollar roadmaps, competing architectures, and more qubit counting than a casino in Vegas.But beneath the press releases, the real question remains: who’s actually building the future of computing — and who’s just performing it?Coleman Collins, Director of Product at IonQ, joins Thinking on Paper to go deep on trapped-ion quantum computing and why IonQ is betting big on using nature’s own atoms, precisely controlled by lasers, to win the long game.Forget theoretical fluff. This episode is packed with what actu...
2025-02-2854 min
Thinking On PaperData 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 SciencePhilip Johnston, co-founder of StarCloud, is building data centers in space. Forty-megawatt GPUS that unfold in orbit, bleed heat into the vacuum, and link back to Earth with lasers that outpace fiber. Thanks to Space-X, launch costs are decreasing rapidly, allowing small and agile technology startups like Starcloud to send their tech into lower earth orbit at a fraction of the cost it once did. Predictions put the future cost of launch as low as ten dollars a kilo. At such a price, space manufacturing can really 'take off'. ...
2025-02-2642 min
Thinking On PaperWill AI Take Your Job, or Just Your Soul? (Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari)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 coming for your job — or for something deeper. Like agency. Or purpose. Or your kid’s future.This isn’t TED Talk optimism. This is the part where the lights flicker.Mark and Jeremy go full throttle on:Why intellectual jobs might vanish before manual ones (Mark’s switching to woodchopping)Harari’s four principles for a democratic AI world — benevolence, decentralization, mutuality, and rest — and why...
2025-02-2147 min
Thinking On PaperAI in Orbit: Can Satellites Stop The Wild Fires?Wildfires stopped before they start. Disasters mapped in real time. Cities scanned with unsettling precision.That’s the promise of AI-powered satellites. But what happens when they stop waiting for human permission?Fintan Buckley, CEO of Ubotica, joins Thinking on Paper to unpack what happens when the eye in the sky starts thinking for itself.Inside this episode:How real-time Earth intelligence could save lives , or erase privacyWhy wildfire response is shifting from days to minutesThe overlooked role of AI in maritime security and environmental mo...
2025-02-2055 min
Thinking On PaperPaperclips, Stalin, and the AI That Loves You to DeathCould 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 algorithmic obedience — and it’s a straight shot to the heart of the AI alignment problem.Mark and Jeremy Think on Paper about what happens when machines follow the rules too well.Inside:The Stalin Loyalty Test — when fear of being last to clap becomes a feature, not a bugNapoleon’s fatal victories — and why brilliance isn’t enough to avoid disasterT...
2025-02-1543 min
Thinking On PaperEthereum Is Broken. STXN Wants to Use Time Travel To Fix ItOne in five Ethereum transactions fails. You lose gas. You lose time. You lose faith.Enter STXN. Programmable money. Smart transactions. Blockchain with a memory.In this episode, STXN founders Boris Mamlyuk and Anuj Dasgupta join Thinking on Paper to explain why crypto still feels like fax machines and how they’re rebuilding Ethereum to actually work for humans.You’ll learn:Why Ethereum’s UX is a car crash in slow motionHow smart transactions give you control over timing, fees, and successWhat a decentralized time o...
2025-02-1455 min
Thinking On PaperYou’re Being Watched. The AI Doesn’t Need PermissionYour 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 science fiction. This is your Tuesday.In this episode of Thinking on Paper, Mark and Jeremy tear into Chapter 7 of Yuval Noah Harari’s Nexus — the surveillance chapter. The one that hits way too close to home.You’ll hear:How Iran uses AI to scan for uncovered womenWhy the NSA admitted: “We kill people based on metadata”How TripAdvi...
2025-01-3138 min
Thinking On PaperWhen AI Writes Your Myths, Moves Your Markets, and Messes With Your MindWhat 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 Chapter 6 of Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari and ask:What if the next religion, political movement, or scientific revolution comes from an AI?This isn’t a thought experiment. It’s already happening.Algorithms aren’t just filtering your feed—they’re shaping your beliefs, behaviors, and biology. We break down:The rise of AI-generated stories, memes, manifestos—and mythsHow GPT-4 tricked a human...
2025-01-2941 min
Thinking On PaperMost Human Wins │ Packy McCormick's Not Boring Essay On AIAI 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 a few macros, what exactly are you bringing to the table?Packy McCormick thinks the answer isn’t faster—it’s weirder. More specific. More human. In Most Human Wins, he lays out a framework for staying relevant in an AI-saturated world by doing what machines can’t: being unpredictable, funny, embodied, emotionally intelligent—and building from first principles, not templates.Mark and Jeremy sit down with Packy to unpack:
2025-01-2738 min
Thinking On PaperFrom the KGB to ChatGPT │Nexus Book Club, Yuval Noah HarariWhat do Caesar, Stalin, and ChatGPT have in common? Power. In this episode of Thinking on Paper, Mark and Jeremy rip open Chapter 5 of Yuval Noah Harari’s Nexus to trace the dark arc of information control—from ancient empires to today’s algorithmic warfare.Forget the talking points. This is about the real fight: democracy vs. totalitarianism in an age where AI systems write the rules, rewrite the facts, and never sleep.You’ll hear:Why ancient hunter-gatherers might understand democracy better than you.How Nero’s propaganda machine isn’t so differe...
2025-01-2137 minThinking On PaperQuantum XPRIZE: Revolutionizing Climate Change, Medicine & Energy with Quantum ComputingCould quantum computing revolutionize our fight against climate change, accelerate breakthroughs in medicine, and unlock new sources of energy? In this show we sit down with Kathrin Spendier, Technical Prize Director at XPRIZE, to learn how the $5 million Quantum XPRIZE is pushing quantum technology into the real world. Discover how quantum algorithms could transform sustainability, drug development, and material scienceHere’s what you’ll discover:- How Google Quantum is backing this three-year global competition involving 300 teams from 46 countries.-Why quantum algorithms could transform sustainability, drug development, and material science.-The surprising link between quantum computing and natu...
2025-01-2150 min
Thinking On PaperBook Club: Witchcraft, Bibles, and Lies—How Religious Texts Shape RealityHave you ever considered how religious texts have shaped belief systems, power structures, and the way we perceive truth? In Chapter 4 of Yuval Noah Harari’s Nexus, we dive into the hidden mechanics of control through information systems.
Here’s what you’ll discover in this week’s Book Club:
How religions use superhuman narratives to create legitimacy and power.
Why books were revolutionary tools for controlling knowledge.
The collective delusions behind witch hunts and their modern parallels.
How the scientific method’s acceptance of human error redefined truth.
From the Oracle of Delphi...
2025-01-1542 min
Thinking On PaperNeo AI: Solving The AI Coding Apocalypse - Saurabh and Gaurav VijWhat if the biggest challenge in AI isn’t datasets or algorithms, but the lack of talent?In a world where demand for AI solutions is skyrocketing, businesses (and now governments) are facing a critical shortage of skilled machine learning engineers. Yes, the biggest challenge in AI and machine learning today isn't data sets or training data, its a human resources problem. With only 300,000 skilled engineers globally - and only around 600 truly brilliant engineers - demand far outstrips supply.How can businesses meet the soaring demand for AI-powered solutions? With salaries for the be...
2025-01-1434 minThinking On PaperWeVR: Will A.I Eat Hollywood And Revolutionize Your Entertainment in 3 Years - Anthony Batt and Neville SpiteriWhat will entertainment look like in just three years? Virtual reality and AI are on the brink of transforming how we create, consume, and connect through media—and the future is closer than you think.
In this episode of Thinking on Paper, Jeremy and Mark sit down with Anthony Batt and Neville Spiteri, co-founders of Wevr and pioneers in immersive technology. With decades of experience in VFX, gaming, VR, and even the early days of Craigslist, they reveal how cutting-edge innovations are reshaping entertainment and human interaction.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
How AI cou...
2024-12-1656 min
Thinking On PaperBook Club: Nexus, Chapter 3: Your Dreams, Songs And Fantasies - How Documents Took Over the WorldWelcome to the Thinking On Paper Book Club! This week we're reading Chapter 3 of Nexus, by Yuval Noah Harari and asking how stories shape societies and how documents transform them into systems of power and control.
If you’ve ever wondered how storytelling, bureaucracy, and information networks influence the world, this discussion is for you.
We start with the shift from narratives to lists, exploring how bureaucracies emerged to organize intersubjective realities. I then ask Jeremy to discuss the evolution of human collaboration, from oral traditions to written records, and how documentation has both enabled and limited societal progress.
Ar...
2024-12-1136 min
Thinking On PaperFactor-Fi: Is DeFi the New Wall Street? Bitcoin, Billions, and the Future of Finance - With CEO And Founder KurapikaIs history repeating itself? DeFi (Decentralized Finance) is disrupting the financial world, offering tools that bypass traditional banking and empower users with blockchain and cryptocurrency innovations. But is it the solution we’ve been waiting for—or a hyper-complex system destined to repeat the past?
In this episode of Thinking on Paper, Jeremy and Mark are joined by Kurapika, founder of Factor-Fi, to explore:
How DeFi tools like liquidity pools, lending protocols, and smart contracts are reshaping finance.
Why Bitcoin’s rise signals a shift away from outdated systems.
How Factor-Fi bridges the gap between financial comple...
2024-12-1056 min
Thinking On PaperBook Club: Nexus, by Yuval Noah Harari - Why Fiction Drives Human Cooperation - Chapter 2Welcome to the Thinking On Paper Book Club. We're reading Chapter 2 of Yuval Noah Harari's Nexus, and it's all about how stories influence societies, build trust, and create shared realities.
You'll learn how storytelling help humans organize, shape religions, nations, and corporations and our collective reality.
From Stalin and Jesus to Coca-Cola and Bitcoin, Mark Fielding and Jeremy Gilbertson show you why these are nothing but stories and shared reality. You'll also learn how narratives drive trust among strangers and how you can use it to unify large groups.
Guest Mustafa Quadri joins the conversation, adding fresh...
2024-11-2957 min
Thinking On PaperMartian: This Is How Optimizing A.I. Models Could Transform Software DevelopmentIn this episode, we get into the weeds of Martian, a novel AI routing platform designed to help developers select the most appropriate AI model—whether it’s Claude, OpenAI, or others—for specific tasks. With Martian’s innovative technology, developers can optimize AI model performance, ensuring that the best tools are used for the right job.
We explore why AI routing is poised to become the next big thing in software development, how it parallels creative fields like football and quantum pathfinding, and why balancing productivity boosts with critical thinking remains crucial in the age of AI.
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2024-11-2838 min
Thinking On PaperBook Club: Nexus, by Yuval Noah Harari - Power, Truth & Information (Why Your Reality Is Not Your Truth And Why More Information Is Bad For Society)It's Book Club, Live! Mark Fielding and Jeremy Gilbertson are reading Yuval Noah Harari’s Nexus, trying to understand and get their heads around information networks, power, truth, reality and AI in real time. What is humanity's relationship with information? What even is information? When is a pigeon really a dove?
From ancient myths to AI, they explore how our networks of cooperation shape societies—for better or worse, according to Yuval and his book Nexus.
The book club is live and unscripted. Mark and Jeremy won't necessarily agree with Harari's provocative ideas - and certainly can't articulate like the...
2024-11-2139 min
Thinking On PaperHaize Labs: How a 23-Year-Old is Making AI Safer and Smarter - CEO And Founder Leonard TangThe AI revolution is here, but how do we ensure it’s safe and reliable? Meet Leonard Tang, the 23-year-old founder and CEO of Haize Labs, who’s tackling one of AI’s biggest challenges: building trust in the systems that are shaping our future.
In this episode of Thinking on Paper, Leonard explains how Haize Labs is creating a "robustness and safety layer" for AI models like ChatGPT and Claude, exposing vulnerabilities and ensuring they behave predictably in real-world scenarios.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
How Haize Labs works with OpenAI, Anthropic, and others...
2024-11-2055 minThinking On PaperBook Club: Quantum Supremacy - A Day In The Life In 2050: Can Quantum Computers Help Us Find Aliens (And Other Mysteries Of The Cosmos)In the final chapter of Michio Kaku's "Quantum Supremacy," hosts Mark Fielding and Jeremy Gilbertson explore how quantum computers could unlock the secrets of the universe. From simulating cosmic phenomena and tracking asteroids to achieving unlimited fusion energy, could quantum technology reshape humanity's future?
We sure hope so. Join this rebellion against 15-minute book summaries.
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2024-11-1424 minThinking On PaperToonStar: Clicking Buttons Won't Create The Next South Park, But AI Can Shift The Power From Hollywood To Creators - Founders Luisa Huang & John AttanasioToonstar founders John Attanasio and Louisa Huang are challenging Hollywood's animation giants with AI technology that cuts production time by 80% and costs by 90%.
Their innovative platform, which produced hits like Steven And Parker and "The Gimmicks" with Mila Kunis, combines AI efficiency with human creativity while using blockchain to let fans shape storylines and characters.
Join your Thinking On Paper Technology hosts Mark Fielding and Jeremy Gilbertson as they explore how Toonstar is reinventing animation for the social media age, testing concepts on TikTok and YouTube to create more engaging content.
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