Thinking On Paper

Thinking On Paper Question the future you're sold. Philosophy, space, music, AI, quantum. A technology-ish podcast.
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Technology moves fast, this channel will help you. Very good, important conversations on artificial intelligence, quantum computing, web3, humanoids, robotics and space manufacturing. Weekly Interviews with CEOS, founders, outliers, scientists, entrepreneurs, authors and whistleblowers. From startups and Silicon Valley wunderkinds to the biggest Tech Fortune 500 companies on the planet. Former gue

sts include IBM, D-Wave, Coinbase, Kevin Kelly, Don Norman, Circle, Carissa Veliz, European Space Agency, NASA and more. Topics range from AI ethics, education, government, music, film, science, space industry and the philosophical impact of technology. In the tech book club there are book reviews and summaries of the most important technology books of the century. Books include: Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus; Federico Faggin, Irreducible; Quantum Supremacy, Clear Thinking, The Order of Time and more. Stay disruptive, be curious, keep thinking on paper.

31/08/2026

The moments that I found so compelling with the Artemis mission is when these astronauts saw the Earth setting behind the moon.

I mean, what a perspective. This is the whole pale blue dot thing, but bigger and different. And you have these people saying, guys, trust me, from this perspective, we are all made of the same stuff. We are all here for the same purpose, yet we are pushing each other around in the wrong way. Those are the moments that need to be echoed, I think.

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31/08/2026

We are very much pointing nuclear weapons at each other and calling each other our mortal enemies.

We can cooperate in space, and that even when we're ready to pull the trigger down here on Earth, we're very hesitant to do any kind of combative things in space. And I think that's something that we should cherish."

Brendan Rosseau, Strategy Manager, Blue Origin; co-author of Space to Grow

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31/08/2026

There's something called Fairphone, Fairphone Gen 6, that's out right now. Conflict-free phone, conflict-free earbuds."

"And that's a conflict-free phone? Did it say that? It's quite scary that that makes me realize, or perhaps think, that almost everything is conflict tech.

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31/08/2026

Reports project a staggering 2120% increase in lithium demand by 2050. While recycling is crucial, global mining production will also need to rise significantly to meet this demand. The US is prioritizing lithium production.

31/08/2026

The United States needs robust space transportation to access everything from sub-orbital flights to deep space. By 2030, we aim to support over 1,000 launches and re-entries annually, securing our interests across all orbital regimes.

31/08/2026

Language models, they read the internet, they learned to talk, they gave us the ability to write and draft emails. World models will watch things happen and learn what happens next.

So you take the language model, you instill the world model, and then you embed it in your robot, in your car, in your tank, in your drone, in your nuclear reactor, on the moon, in your space rover. And that sci-fi future of fully autonomous, super intelligent robots will one day arrive."

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30/08/2026

Yann LeCun explains that language models are fundamentally different from world models. World models handle complex, continuous, and noisy real-world data, which LLMs struggle with.

30/08/2026

From our breakdown of world models.

"It's instruction, but then it's instruction plus action. So it's like two things. Doing is two things. It's the agent grabbing the policy, interacting in the world, right?

That's why the language model can describe how to fix a nuclear generator, but it can't do it. But if you trained it in the world model and put it into a robot, then it could.

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29/08/2026

There is a huge, huge market for quantum in space.

"Yes! Is that what you're doing with Voyager?"

"Ultimately, yes, the idea is that we will work with them to get clocks up into space and then start to test them in some of the real estate that they have on the International Space Station. And so the interesting thing about getting things ready to go to space, and we actually are, we were the first company to ever put quantum technology in space. We did it back in 2018. It was part of what they called the Cold Atom Lab, and it still resides up there on the International Space Station."

Matt Kinsella, CEO, Infleqtion

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29/08/2026

Quantum computing is going to be the most important computing technology of this century.

And I still stand by that. I think that's right. You know, AI will change, it's important, yeah, that's not questioned. But as a fundamentally different thing that most of us have not seen in our lifetime, quantum is gonna be it."

Bob Sutor, VP and Practice Lead for Emerging Technologies, The Futurum Group; author of Dancing with Qubits

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