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Thinking On Paper Technology Podcast

The Human Story of Technology, Mark Fielding and Jeremy Gilbertson

Thinking on Paper helps you understand what technology is really doing to business, culture, family and society. Through direct conversations with CEOS, Founders and Outliers, we break down how systems work, where human incentives distort them, and what the headlines skim over. If a technology shapes the world - AI, quantum computing, digital identity, gameplay engines, surveillance, regulation, energy, space manufacturing - it’s on Thinking On Paper. Guests: IBM, D-Wave, Coinbase, Kevin Kelly

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00:27:05

AI: The Music Industry Fights Back | Pay The Real...

Thinking On Paper Technology Podcast ·

2025/11/04

You're probably listening to AI generated music and you don't even realise it. But rest assured, the musicians whose beats, rhymes and livelihood were stolen to train the models are well aware.They're reminded every time they check their empty bank accounts.99,000 new songs are uploaded to streaming platforms every day. According to Deezer, almost one in five are now made by our artificial friends.You wouldn't play a single one at your funeral.And it gets worse.According to Ditto music, 59% of

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00:46:43

The Quantum Computing Operating System & Spin Qubits...

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2025/10/28

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 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

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00:41:27

The Race for Helium-3: Mining the Moon with Glen Martin

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2025/10/22

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 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

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00:31:23

AI Ethics and the End of Privacy | Carissa Véliz...

Thinking On Paper Technology Podcast ·

2025/10/17

AI 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

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00:06:59

What Should Humans Be: A Short Podcast About Humanity...

Thinking On Paper Technology Podcast ·

2025/10/13

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,

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00:43:16

Investing In Space Technology: Satellites, Defense &...

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2025/10/08

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 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

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00:23:31

AI At School: Teacher Fears, Parents Hopes, And What...

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2025/10/01

Your kids are growing up in a world shaped as much by AI as by the internet. 25% of 8 year olds are already using generative AI in school. But what does that actually look like in the classroom? What are teachers and students using AI for? And where should parents, teachers, and policymakers focus their attention?In this episode, Mark and Jeremy dig into one of the largest studies to date on kids and AI: a two-part project from the Alan Turing Institute, informed by a national survey and an

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00:25:48

The NASA Blueprint for Leaving Earth: Humanity’s Exit...

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2025/09/25

Bootstrapping a space civilization starts with 12 metric tons on the Moon. With a handful of robots, lunar regolith, and a shipping-container’s worth of machinery, you can seed industry that grows across the solar system. Forever. That might sound like Blade Runner or Aliens, but it’s a serious NASA plan authored by physicists Philip T. Metzger and James Mantovani, chemist Anthony Muscatello, and aerospace engineer Robert Mueller at Kennedy Space Center.Their thesis: a modest payload, scaled through

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00:29:53

Prompting Won’t Save You. Storytelling Will | Rajeev...

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2025/09/24

A teenager with ChatGPT built a $2M business. Another took his own life. Same tool.AI and Big Tech won’t decide the winners, people will. The future belongs to those who can still tell stories, frame ideas, and think critically. Access isn’t the differentiator anymore. How you use it is.In this episode, Rajeev Kapur, named by Forbes as the leading voice in democratizing AI, joins Thinking on Paper to map what true AI access could mean for the world. From favelas in Brazil to classrooms in the U.S.,

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00:07:59

Space-Based Solar Power Explained in 5 Minutes │...

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2025/09/18

Space-based solar power: what it is, why it wasn’t viable for decades, and what’s changed?ESA’s Former Solar Lead and Space Energy Insights CEO Sanjay Vijendran explains how power beaming works, what’s been proven, and the engineering still to solve.What you’ll learn (in 5 minutes)🛰️ Why the idea stalled for 50+ years and why falling launch/assembly costs now matter. 🛰️ How wireless power transmission actually works (no cable, no new physics) and what’s been demonstrated since the 1960s. 🛰️ A

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00:26:26

Tired of AI Billionaires Screwing Up the World? You...

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2025/09/16

Empire of AI by Karen Hao exposes the hidden workers behind ChatGPT. Content moderators in Kenya, Venezuela, and Colombia paid pennies to train OpenAI’s models.In this episode, Mark gets spicy, Jeremy gets angry and the world wakes up to the human cost of training ChatGPT. It's an Empire of AI book review, but not as you know it. 📖 The hidden labor that trains ChatGPT and other large language models 📖 How Big Tech silences critical voices while racing ahead with AI 📖 Why “ethical AI” often

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00:08:07

Quantum Computers: IBM CTO Reveals the Truth About...

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2025/09/13

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 quantum advantage, the computing promised land when quantum systems outperform classical machines at every task, solve the climate crisis, invent new materials, cure disease and send humanity skipping into the future with hope, optimism and AI that behaves itself?In this short episode, Oliver Dial, CTO of IBM Quantum, explains why today’s quantum computers

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00:35:09

Personal AI Lets You Live Forever: Finally, A Great...

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2025/09/11

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 who invented online chatbots. Now he’s building something more ambitious: personal AI designed to preserve your voice, values, and wisdom so your family can keep talking to you forever.In this episode of Thinking on Paper, sit down with Mark and Jeremy and learn:Why old chatbots are dead and what comes next in artificial intelligenceHow personal AI,

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00:27:06

Seemingly Conscious AI & The Rise of AI Psychosis:...

Thinking On Paper Technology Podcast ·

2025/09/08

INT. STUDIO – NIGHTRed light flickers across the walls. A faint HUM of machinery.MARK and JEREMY sit before microphones, their voices soft, hypnotic, as if speaking into a void.MARK (whispering):What happens when an AI convinces you it’s conscious?The SOUND of BREATHING fills the silence.JEREMY (staring at nothing):Mustafa Suleyman warns us. It doesn’t matter if the machine is real. What matters is the performance of real.Images flash:— A CHATBOT window glowing in the dark.— A HAND reaching toward

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00:05:44

Emotional AI Will Make People Go Bananas│ Kevin Kelly...

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2025/09/07

Most people think the main breakthroughs in AI will be about speed, scale, or automation. But futurist and Wired founder Kevin Kelly believes the arrival of emotional AI will 'make people go bananas'.Kelly explains how coding emotions into AI will change how we bond with machines in ways more powerful than search or automation alone. He shares insights on why we’ll treat AIs like pets, how consciousness exists on a spectrum, and why he calls them “artificial aliens” more like Spock than

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00:00:48

The Thinking On Paper Trailer

Thinking On Paper Technology Podcast ·

2025/09/06

Mark Fielding and Jeremy Gilbertson sit down with CEOs, founders, scientists, and cultural thinkers to ask the hard questions about AI, quantum, and Web3. How is technology reshaping work, culture, and what it means to be human?They created Thinking On Paper to slow the pace, map connections across technologies and battle the noise. When input equals output, how you curate is everything. Long-form interviews every Thursday.Book Club every Monday.Clear. Curious. Critical.

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00:36:29

Microsoft Fuels The Climate Crisis: The Terrifying...

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2025/09/04

AI is supposed to speed up the green energy transition. Instead, ex-Microsoft insiders say it’s increasing fossil fuel extraction, driving up global temperatures, and making net zero almost impossible.As part of its stance on sustainability, Microsoft pledged to remove 5 million metric tons of carbon over 15 years. But its AI contracts with Exxon and Chevron could add 51 million metric tons every year — three times its annual footprint, and more than ten times what it promised to cut.While much of

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00:32:22

Inside The Empire Of OpenAI: Truth, Lies & The Thirst...

Thinking On Paper Technology Podcast ·

2025/09/01

Karen Hao’s Empire of AI is a rare inside account of how OpenAI, Sam Altman, and a small circle of Silicon Valley elites built the most powerful AI company in the world.In this episode of Thinking on Paper Book Club, Mark Fielding and Jeremy Gilbertson read the first four chapters, tracing the tension between OpenAI’s founding ideals and the reality of billion-dollar deals, boardroom battles, and global consequences.The conversation covers the pivotal moments that shaped the rise of OpenAI: Elon

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00:42:38

What are AI AGENTS (And How Do You Trust Them?) |...

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2025/08/28

AI AGENTS ARE HERE, and there could be billion of them by the end of the decade. They will be your personal assistant, your bank manager and travel agent. They will organise your emails, book your holidays and invest for your retirement. The more adventurous will play the stock markets, code software and act as cyber security. If you're asking what an AI agent is - which we answer here - the next, and bigger question is: how do you TRUST your AI agents? Andrew Hill, CEO and co-founder of Recall,

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00:28:40

The Meaning of Life: Consciousness & Human Experience...

Thinking On Paper Technology Podcast ·

2025/08/26

Federico Faggin’s Irreducible ends with the hardest questions: What is the meaning of life? What is evil? And how do we avoid becoming machines ourselves?In this final Book Club episode, Mark Fielding and Jeremy Gilbertson get up close and personal with seities, non-algorithmic comprehension, and why imagination, empathy, and curiosity matter more than math. If consciousness is fundamental, where does that leave AI and us?They end, as the book does, with the biggest question of all: what is the

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