Thinking On Paper

A Technology Show For The Radically Curious
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A technology show for the radically curious. Weekly interviews with the CEOS, founders and outliers of the space industry, AI, blockchain, robotics and quantum computing. Thinking On Paper isn't about seed investment and funding. We don't care about that. From music and work to family, education, war and cinema, Mark and Jeremy learn about the human story of technology and the real impacts on daily life for the 99%. Guests: IBM, Infleqtion, Kevin Kelly, Carissa Veliz, Microsoft, Don Norman, Philip Metzger, Skyler Chan, Nvidia, Pia Lauritzen and many more.

  1. Nvidia & Infleqtion Plugged A Quantum Computer Into A Supercomputer

    1D AGO

    Nvidia & Infleqtion Plugged A Quantum Computer Into A Supercomputer

    Quantum computing had zero logical qubits. In 2024 that changed. The entire industry crossed a threshold that nobody had managed to cross in three and a half decades. Infleqtion was one of the first companies through.In this episode, Mark and Jeremy learn from Pranav Gokhale, CTO of Infleqtion, and Sam Stanwyck, Group Product Manager for Quantum Computing at Nvidia. They learn how Nvidia built a four microsecond connection between a GPU and a quantum processor and why that number is the difference between theory and reality. They get into why a GPU and a quantum computer are not competitors but the most complementary technologies ever built. They cover how Infleqtion's quantum computers use the same power as ten hairdryers even at 1,600 qubits. They talk through why drug discovery, battery design and material science are the first industries that quantum will actually change. Finally, they find out about a $20 million NASA partnership sending a quantum gravity sensor to space to measure gravity. -- ⁠Listen to every podcast⁠ Follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠ Follow us on ⁠X⁠ Follow Mark on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ Follow Jeremy on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ Read our ⁠Substack⁠ Email: hello@thinkingonpaper.xyz -- Chapters (00:00) Why quantum computing matters right now  (01:20) Why Nvidia is betting big on quantum  (02:52) NVQ-Link: the bridge between quantum and classical computing (09:29) Who decides what runs on the quantum computer vs the GPU? (12:33) AI helping quantum, quantum helping AI  (16:56) Building a space elevator battery: a real quantum workflow  (20:09) The quantum algorithm zoo  (22:04) From noisy qubits to logical qubits  (24:00) How much energy does a quantum computer actually use?  (27:05) The no-cloning theorem (27:20) The biggest unanswered question in quantum computing (30:47) A $20M NASA program and a telescope for underground  (33:32) What do we want humans to be?

    37 min
  2. NASA Funded It, SpaceX Built It, Helium-3 Pays For It - Glen Martin - Extra-terrestrial Mining Company

    2D AGO

    NASA Funded It, SpaceX Built It, Helium-3 Pays For It - Glen Martin - Extra-terrestrial Mining Company

    Glen Martin is an aerospace engineer and CEO of the Extraterrestrial Mining Company. Helium-3 powers quantum computers, fuel fusion reactors, and end energy scarcity on Earth, and almost nobody is talking about it. There's barely 29 kilograms of it left in the US reserve, and there's 1.1 million tons on the moon. The race to get it has already begun. Expect to learn what helium-3 is and why it could power civilisation, why quantum computing is already running out of it, how a private company plans to finance a lunar mine, and whether the US can build a cislunar economy before China does. -- 📺 Watch on YouTube -- Timestamps (00:00) Trailer (02:45) What is Helium-3, and why are we mining the Moon? (05:29) Why there’s almost no Helium-3 on Earth, and a million tons on the Moon (09:01) How Helium-3 could be harvested from lunar dust (10:33) Fusion without fallout: the clean-energy promise of Helium-3 (13:01) Space-based solar power and fusion: two paths to future energy. (17:56) How private companies plan to finance Moon mining (21:52) The new space race: U.S., China, and the competition for lunar fuel (25:03) Can treaties prevent conflict over Moon resources? (27:37) AI, autonomy, and the machines that will mine the Moon (29:31) NASA’s commercial lunar payloads and the rise of space infrastructure (31:08) What lunar regolith tells us about Helium-3 reserves (33:35) The trillion-dollar question: who profits from space resources? (36:17) Curiosity, wonder, and the future of human exploration (40:01) Technology, morality, and the choice to be good -- Other ways to connect with us: ⁠Listen to every podcast⁠ Follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠ Follow us on ⁠X⁠ Follow Mark on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ Follow Jeremy on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ Read our ⁠Substack⁠ Email: hello@thinkingonpaper.xyz--

    40 min
  3. Carissa Veliz: Privacy Is Power & The Cost of Your Convenience

    4D AGO

    Carissa Veliz: Privacy Is Power & The Cost of Your Convenience

    Carissa Véliz wrote Privacy is Power because she wanted people to understand what is actually being taken from them when they hand over their data. Not their browsing history. Not their location. Their autonomy. Their ability to be unknown. Their right to make mistakes without those mistakes being permanent, profitable, and portable. Somewhere, right now, algorithms are making decisions about your life. A loan. A job. An insurance premium. A news feed curated to make you feel a particular way about politics. You didn't apply. You weren't consulted. You cannot see the criteria. You cannot appeal the outcome. You just live with it. This conversation covers the full picture. What surveillance capitalism actually is and how it works. Why privacy is not just your problem but everyone's. Why the line between government and corporate surveillance disappeared and why that matters. And what you can do about it today, with the phone in your hand, without becoming a hermit or a conspiracy theorist. -- Follow Carissa on X Buy Privacy is Power-- -- ⁠Listen to every podcast⁠ Follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠ Follow us on ⁠X⁠ Follow Mark on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ Follow Jeremy on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ Read our ⁠Substack⁠ Email: hello@thinkingonpaper.xyz -- TIMESTAMPS (00:00) Trailer (02:26) What Is Privacy (05:31) Is Democracy At Risk? (08:34) Government & Big Tech (10:39) How To Decouple Big Tech & Government (12:33) Privacy & The Common Human Experience (16:02) Tools To Protect Your Privacy (17:18) Cookie Clutter (19:30) ChatGPT Writes Policy (20:05) Radical Open Mindedness (21:52) AI Alignment (22:56) AI Ethics (28:09) How To Erase Your Data (29:27) What Should Humanity Be? --

    28 min
  4. Hotels On The Moon | Skyler Chan, CEO & Founder GRU

    FEB 26

    Hotels On The Moon | Skyler Chan, CEO & Founder GRU

    Skyler Chan is the 22-year-old founder and CEO of Gru. And he's building a hotel on the moon. And if all goes to plan, the first paying customers could be there as soon as 2032. Of course much has to go right to get there. And much more can go wrong. So let's start with the basics. The moon will kill you in three ways. Pressure. Temperature. Radiation. Gru's answer to the first two is an inflatable. A structure that ships flat, deploys on the lunar surface, and holds enough pressure and warmth to keep a human being alive. Their answer to radiation is a brick. Not a metaphorical brick. An actual brick, made on the moon, from the moon, using a chemical process they're bringing from Earth and mixing with lunar soil. Nobody has ever made anything on the moon. Gru wants to be first. The plan runs in three stages. First launch proves the technology — make a brick, inflate a bladder, don't die. Second launch scales it. Third launch puts people inside. The target date for guests checking in is 2032. The target capacity is four people. The target price per kilogram to get there is a hundred times cheaper than it costs today. A lot has to go right. But Skyler's argument is simple and it's hard to shake. This isn't a technology problem. We went to the moon in 1969 with less computing power than the phone in your pocket. We know how to do this. What's been missing is someone willing to start. He started. Please enjoy. -- ⁠Listen to every podcast⁠ Follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠ Follow us on ⁠X⁠ Follow Mark on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ Follow Jeremy on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ Read our ⁠Substack⁠ Email: hello@thinkingonpaper.xyz -- Chapters (00:00) Trailer (02:19) Building a Hotel on the Moon (06:06) The Logistics of Space Travel (06:47) Economic Considerations for Lunar Ventures (10:03) Merging Technologies for Lunar Habitats (10:59) First Mission: Building the First Brick on the Moon (13:15) Changing Perceptions of Space Projects (16:25) The Human Spirit and Interplanetary Exploration (19:40) Responsibility of Being an Interplanetary Species

    24 min
  5. Philip Johnston TED Talk: StarCloud's Plan to Move Data Centers to Space - Reaction Video

    FEB 18

    Philip Johnston TED Talk: StarCloud's Plan to Move Data Centers to Space - Reaction Video

    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 building the infrastructure for space-based data centers.  Elon Musk was not the first. He follows in the footsteps of Mr Johnston. And so, rather than Mr SpaceX, our first technology reaction video is this TED talk from San Francisco.    We watched it for the first time. Live. On TV.  This is not theoretical. It's also not up to date. Philip filmed this in October 2025. Starcloud have already launched the Nvidia H100 on a Falcon 9 up into space.  It's happening disruptors and curious minds. It's happening.  Philip predicts most data centers will be in space within 10 years.  We agree.  Please enjoy the show. Cheers,  Mark & Jeremy. -- Other ways to connect with us: ⁠Listen to every podcast⁠ Follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠ Follow us on ⁠X⁠ Follow Mark on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ Follow Jeremy on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ Read our ⁠Substack⁠ Email: hello@thinkingonpaper.xyz

    25 min
  6. If A Few People Own Space, Democracy Is Over - Dr Philip Metzger: NASA, SpaceX And Moon Dust

    FEB 16

    If A Few People Own Space, Democracy Is Over - Dr Philip Metzger: NASA, SpaceX And Moon Dust

    Dr Philip Metzger spent 30 years at NASA. His conclusion is simple and terrifying: if we do not democratise the ownership of space before the economy explodes, a handful of people will control a resource worth billions of times the current global economy. Democracy does not survive that. In this episode Mark and Jeremy learn that every rocket landing on the moon blows dust at six times the speed of a bullet and no country has agreed on what to do about it yet. They get into why AI data centres will move off Earth within ten years and what that does to the entire space economy. Philip explains why launching rockets at scale will eventually start damaging the stratosphere in ways nobody has a framework to manage. He breaks down what fully autonomous luxury communism actually means and why it requires democratising the ownership of space right now. And he makes the case for why a student robotics competition in Mexico might be one of the most important space programmes on the planet. -- Take your Thinking Further.  Stephen Hawking Center: https://sciences.ucf.edu/physics/microgravity/lab/ Philip X: https://x.com/drphiltill - Other ways to connect with us: ⁠Listen to every podcast⁠ Follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠ Follow us on ⁠X⁠ Follow Mark on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ Follow Jeremy on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ Read our ⁠Substack⁠ Email: hello@thinkingonpaper.xyz -- TIMESTAMPS (00:00) Introduction to Space Exploration and Economics (01:26) NASA's Role in Future Space Exploration (06:45) Impact of Rocket Exhaust on Lunar Soil (14:39) Geopolitical Challenges in Space (23:39) Democratizing Space for Future Generations (33:45) Emergent Forces vs. Hierarchical Forces (34:08) Exploring Microgravity Applications (38:39) Rapid Fire Space Technology Opinions (44:02) The Future of Humans and Technology

    45 min

  7. FEB 12

    Delivery Drones: Coming To A Sky Near You - Etienne Louvet, Iona Drones

    Iona delivery drones are not your typical multi-propeller drone. They're small planes with a bathtub-sized cargo bay, but take off vertically, then the propellers tilt and it flies like an actual aircraft. Listen up disruptors and curious minds! Today we're Thinking On Paper with CEO and founder Etienne Louvet.  On the agenda? A new logistics vertical in the skyWhy British weather is the perfect training ground for delivery dronesWhat BVLOS actually meansWhy "beyond visual line of sight" is criticalWhy Iona are deliberately working under the strictest aviation regulators instead of going somewhere easy.  Please enjoy the show. Cheers,  Mark & Jeremy. PS: Subscribe so other curious minds like you can find our channel. -- Other ways to connect with us: ⁠Listen to every podcast⁠ Follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠ Follow us on ⁠X⁠ Follow Mark on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ Follow Jeremy on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ Read our ⁠Substack⁠ Email: hello@thinkingonpaper.xyz -- TIMESTAMPS (00:00) Intro  (01:50) How much weight can drones carry (02:29) What counts as light cargo  (06:51) How drone regulations actually work  (13:04) Self-assessment and risk management  (14:12) Getting municipalities to say yes  (16:38) Weather problems  (19:48) Where Iona Drones is now  (20:58) Maximizing payload capacity  (21:58) Drone design choices  (23:27) BVLOS explained  (26:08) Drones and privacy concerns  (30:45) Implementing drones in existing logistics  (35:02) Where autonomous delivery is headed  (39:30) Technology and human progress

    43 min

  8. FEB 6

    How NOT To Prompt AI For The Best Answers

    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 letting go of the very basic condition that forces us to think. When we ask if machines can think, the first question should be: why do humans think? Why do we think? For Pia, it is fairly simple. We think because we know there is something we do not know. We have a problem. There is a gap. A gap between what I know and what I want to know.  So I have to start thinking. That is why I ask these questions and that is why I put up with this pain in my head of trying to figure something out that I do not know. The machine does not have that problem. It does not know that it does not know.  It is like an animal.  It does not know that it does not know.  Of course it is a matter of how you understand thinking. But if you consult the old thinkers and not just the engineers and technologists, then you will have a really hard time finding anyone who would say that a machine could ever think.  And if it cannot think itself, why should it be able to help us think? We are the only ones who know how to do that. This is the core problem. AI feels helpful. It removes the discomfort of not knowing where to start. It fills the blank sheet. But that discomfort is not a bug.  That discomfort is the feature. That discomfort is what thinking is. And it is at this point that I am reminded of the scene in Con Air. Define irony. Please enjoy the show. Cheers,  Mark & Jeremy. PS: Subscribe so other curious minds like you can find our channel. -- Other ways to connect with us: ⁠Listen to every podcast⁠ Follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠ Follow us on ⁠X⁠ Follow Mark on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ Follow Jeremy on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ Read our ⁠Substack⁠ Email: hello@thinkingonpaper.xyz

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A technology show for the radically curious. Weekly interviews with the CEOS, founders and outliers of the space industry, AI, blockchain, robotics and quantum computing. Thinking On Paper isn't about seed investment and funding. We don't care about that. From music and work to family, education, war and cinema, Mark and Jeremy learn about the human story of technology and the real impacts on daily life for the 99%. Guests: IBM, Infleqtion, Kevin Kelly, Carissa Veliz, Microsoft, Don Norman, Philip Metzger, Skyler Chan, Nvidia, Pia Lauritzen and many more.

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    A Technology Show For The Radically Curious
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    108
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