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Thinking On Paper

Mark Fielding and Jeremy Gilbertson

An independent technology show for those who want to understand the human impact of AI, space tech, quantum computing, and robotics, without the hype, the jargon, or the billionaire worship. Mark & Jeremy present over 300+ episodes with the CEOS, founders and outliers actually building the future. We ask the questions you"d ask if you were in the room. Listeners have learned from IBM, D-Wave, Kevin Kelly, the inventor of the microprocessor, Microsoft whistle-blowers, moon mining NASA CEOs,

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00:28:53

The Top 10 Space Industry Raises of 2026: Space...

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2026/04/09

Space technology investment is surging into 2026. Confidence is high. The ten largest funding rounds total over $3.7 billion. And it's only April.Defence and national security contracts are driving much of the momentum, with companies like Stoke Space, Sierra Space and Cesium Astro attracting hundreds of millions on the strength of government partnerships.Infrastructure remains the dominant investment thesis — from encrypted GPS alternatives and space-based weather platforms to satellite

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00:27:49

The Martens Clause: The 1899 Law That Should Govern...

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2026/04/07

The Martens Clause, a legal principle drafted by Russian-Imperial diplomat Fyodor Martens during the first Hague Peace Conference of 1899, established that even in the absence of specific written law, nations and individuals remain bound by "the laws of humanity and the requirements of public conscience." Originally conceived as a compromise to prevent the collapse of early international humanitarian law negotiations - when smaller nations like Belgium objected to how occupying powers

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00:21:42

The Pentagon's AI war strategy: should machines pull...

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2026/04/03

Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum to every senior official at the Pentagon directing the Department of War to become an AI-first warfighting force. Six weeks later America was at war with Iran and AI was identifying targets. The memo outlines seven pace-setting projects — Swarm Forge, Agent Network, Ender's Foundry, and four more — and contains one sentence that defines the entire document: "We must accept that the risks of not moving fast enough outweigh the risks of imperfect

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00:20:19

Iran War Propaganda: Lego, Call of Duty & The Battle...

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2026/03/30

Iran posted an AI-generated LEGO propaganda video mocking Trump and Netanyahu. The White House fired back with Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty and a Wii Sports video of Iranian military sites being destroyed. A senior White House official told Politico they were "just grinding away on banger memes, dude." A hundred million views later…- WATCH ON YOUTUBE -This is the AI slop propaganda war, playing out in public - mostly on Twitter - as the bombs drop, the drones fly and the smoke and mirrors of a

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00:35:55

Astroscale, Space Junk & The SpaceX Monopoly: Space...

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2026/03/23

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 pieces of space junk that won't decay for a century. Nobody paid for it. Nobody cleaned it up... because nobody had to.That is the tragedy of the commons in orbit, and it is getting worse. Conjunctions, the close-passing events that require satellites to burn fuel to avoid collision, grew from 1.7 million in 2020 to 4 million in 2022. Elon Musk has

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00:06:39

2028 & The Quantum Race To 100 Qubits - Pranav Gokhale

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2026/03/12

Quantum computing has been five years away forever. In this episode, Infelqtion CTO Pranav Gokhale makes the case that 2028 is the year quantum becomes useful. He explains what a logical qubit actually is, why 100 of them represents a genuine tipping point for material science and drug discovery, and what the Infleqtion roadmap to 2028 looks like. ----Other ways to connect with us:⁠Listen to every podcast⁠Follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠Follow us on ⁠X⁠Follow Mark on ⁠LinkedIn⁠Follow Jeremy on

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00:24:45

Can NASA Survive the Commercial Space (X) Era? -...

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2026/03/10

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 Book Club, Mark and Jeremy learn about the SPAC bubble that wiped out 90% of space start-up valuations. They ask why Virgin Orbit collapsed from a $3.7B valuation to bankruptcy in two years and why Astra went public at $2.1B with zero rockets that had ever reached orbit. Mark questions whether both did exactly what crypto did: overpromise, crash, and

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00:23:31

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

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2026/02/26

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

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00:36:40

Nvidia & Infleqtion: Why Every GPU Will Have a...

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2026/02/23

Infleqtion and Nvidia solved the problem that has blocked quantum computing for 35 years. Pranav Gokhale and Sam Stanwyck explain exactly what broke, what fixed it, and why 2028 is the year of 100 qubits.Quantum computing has always promised to transform drug discovery, battery technology, material science, and AI, but the gap between classical and quantum computing made real-world applications impossible. That changed in 2024.Quantum computing explained by the people building it.Pranav Gokhale, CTO

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00:24:55

Philip Johnston TED Talk: StarCloud's Plan to Move...

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2026/02/18

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

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00:44:48

Lunar Dust to Democracy: NASA Scientist Dr. Philip...

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2026/02/16

The space economy will grow to $100 billion, but concentrated ownership could end democracy. Dr. Philip Metzger Thinks On Paper about why technical problems, economic coordination, and power all have to be solved together.Questions answered:- After Artemis, will NASA still have a role to play?- What makes Starship critical for lunar operations?- When will data centers in space be cheaper than on Earth?- Are hotels on the moon actually viable?- Why mine the moon for Helium-3?- When will asteroid

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00:43:23

The Waymo Moment for Drones: Iona, Privacy And Logistics

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2026/02/12

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

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00:04:09

Prompting Vs Asking: Why the Blank Sheet Is What...

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2026/02/06

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

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00:09:37

AI-Generated Music Without Stealing: Maths, Vectors &...

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2026/02/05

We taught technology to generate music before we taught it how to assign fair credit to musicians. Nicholas Ponari explains why Overtune rejects one-prompt AI music generation in favor of human-in-the-loop creation. Unlike platforms trained on scraped catalogs, Overtune’s AI is built on licensed music, starting with ~20,000 loops produced in-house. Producers can submit stems voluntarily, creating a clean foundation for ethical training and attribution.The platform uses vector-based audio embeddings

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00:07:12

Analog Vs Digital Marketing in 2026: Funnels Don't...

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2026/02/04

Marketing funnels don't exist. They never did. The internet just convinced us they were real. Meta, Google, OpenAI and a supporting cast of billionaire sociopaths figured out they could control distribution and black-box your customers.Hurrah. Humanity forgot to read the small print. Now you're running a business where you don't even know who your customer is.Well here’s the AI-shaped healthcheck: Your customer is OpenAI.You're paying 3-15% for a digital presence you don't need. It's called the

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00:06:54

NVIDIA Quantum Chips, GPUs And How Quantum Computers...

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2026/02/03

Matt Kinsella runs Infleqtion, a company building quantum computers. The biggest misconception about quantum computing is that it will replace classical computing. It won't. Quantum processors will sit above GPUs in data centers the same way GPUs sit above CPUs today. NVIDIA just built the bridge to make this work. It's called NVQ Link, and it changes how we think about the future of compute.NVIDIA announced NVQ Link in October 2024. It's the bridge between quantum computers and classical GPU

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00:31:04

Book Club: Space Economics - Why NASA's $4B ISS Loses...

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2026/01/26

The ISS costs $4 billion per year and has no business model. Planet built satellites from laptop batteries. Bigelow spent 20 years on inflatable modules.Launch costs dropped 100x. So why isn't anyone making money?Mark & Jeremy discuss "Space to Grow" by Matthew Weinzierl & Brendan Rosseau: why satellites work (defense contracts), why space stations don't (no customers), and whether the economics will ever close.We explore:- Why satellites make money (defense contracts,

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00:27:44

Why Two-Thirds of Data Centers Fail (And How AI Fixes...

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2026/01/22

Shapol led rocket launches before building AI to prevent the wrong switch from crashing your favorite apps. Two-thirds of data center outages are caused by human error. Someone flipping the wrong switch is all it takes to bring down AWS. Airplanes can't take off, hospitals can't function. AI can fix this. Shapol, CEO of Entangl, explains how his company is solving this billion-dollar problem with AI-powered autonomous operations that understand every circuit, server, and switch in a data

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00:26:08

How SpaceX Cut Launch Costs 97%: Space to Grow - Book...

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2026/01/19

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. In fifteen years, one company did what a government agency couldn't do in sixty.We're reading Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier by Brendan Rosseau and Matthew C. Weinzierl. This is the book that explains how private companies broke NASA's sixty-year monopoly on space.WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER:How the Apollo program's

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00:29:28

Space Solar Power: Can We Really Get Free Energy From...

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2026/01/15

Can space-based solar power actually give humanity free, unlimited energy by 2030?John Bucknell, former SpaceX Senior Propulsion Engineer on the Raptor rocket engine and CEO of Virtus Solis, reveals how orbital solar power could drop energy costs from $40 per megawatt hour to just 50 cents, solving the energy trilemma that no other technology can achieve.PERFECT FOR LISTENERS INTERESTED IN:- Space technology and commercial space industry- Clean energy solutions and climate tech innovation- SpaceX,

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