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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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00:43:49

Quantum Clocks on Submarines with Infleqtion CEO...

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2026/01/09

Matthew Kinsella, CEO of Infleqtion, explains how neutral atom quantum computing works at room temperature, and why the UK just put quantum clocks on military submarines.Unlike superconducting or trapped ion systems, neutral atoms offer flexibility beyond computing: quantum sensing, atomic clocks, and RF detection all use the same underlying technology. Matthew breaks down how lasers manipulate rubidium atoms into the coldest places in the known universe, the Rydberg state that enables entanglement,

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00:35:56

Augmented Reality at Snapchat, Salesforce, and The...

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2026/01/08

Eight billion uses of augmented reality happen on Snapchat every day. Salesforce uses AR to onboard new staff. In this episode, Thinking on Paper looks at what those two realities say about augmented reality in 2026.Michael Guerin, CEO of Imvizar, starts in the post–Pokémon Go era. Snapchat delivers AR at massive scale, yet most users never label it as augmented reality. If you use Instagram or Snapchat, you already use AR through lenses and filters. The technology works because it sits inside

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00:27:16

52 Things We Didn't Know In 2025 (But Learned Thanks...

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2026/01/06

Every Technology podcast predicts the future. For the last episode of 2025, Thinking On Paper is going backwards. And it's not even our own work, like Open AI scraping the internet for IP, we're borrowing (stealing) the learnings of Tom Whitwell.Tom is a reformed journalist, reformed consultant and now designs electronic musical instruments. He wrote this blog on the 52 things he learned in 2025: https://medium.com/@tomwhitwell/52-things-i-learned-in-2025-edeca7e3fdd8We choose our favourite

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00:08:32

The Dangerous Illusion of Seemingly Conscious AI │...

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2025/12/23

The machines do not need to wake up. The risk is the illusion of seemingly conscious AI.When a generative AI system convincingly claims subjective experience, humans have no reliable way to disprove it. Consciousness is inferred, trust and emotional attachment fabricated. And the weak and susceptible get seduced by the illusion. The danger is not a rogue superintelligence. It is a benign chatbot optimized for empathy, memory, and persuasion, interacting with people who are psychologically vulnerable

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00:08:48

Quantum Computing Will Eat The World │ Joe...

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2025/12/22

Quantum computing doesn’t make computers a bit faster. It changes what’s possible.In this short episode, Joe Fitzsimons explains why quantum progress is so hard to grasp. Each additional qubit doubles the difficulty of simulating a system on classical machines, while the size of quantum processors has been scaling faster as industry accelerates development. Put those together and you get growth that quickly breaks everyday intuition.Joe grounds it with comparisons: early computers didn’t just speed

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00:31:21

Making Music Got Easy, Now Taste & Tech Matter More...

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2025/12/18

When making music took heartbreak, a thousand late nights and bleeding fingers, effort was the gatekeeper. Now AI lets anyone generate a song, judgement and taste become the differentiators. In today’s show, Mark and Jeremy Think On Paper with Nicholas Ponari - investor, guitar player, and Chief Operating Officer at Overtune - about who gets credit, and who gets paid, when creation becomes easy.Ponari argues the real fight isn’t whether AI music is “real.” It’s attribution. Overtune is betting you

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00:22:55

The Electric Stack: Why the World Runs on Chinese...

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2025/12/10

China controls every Tesla, drone and electric toothbrush. Why? Because it produces over half of the world’s lithium-ion batteries and more than 90% of all neodymium magnets. They are the core ingredient in Teslas, drones, robots, and every electric motor you interact with daily. China also mines 70% of global rare earths and processes 85–90% of them. The Electric Stack is Chinese. In this episode of Thinking on Paper, Mark and Jeremy read Packy McCormick’s Not Boring Essay: The Electric Slide to

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00:29:35

US Housing Crisis: The Real Reason You Can’t Afford a...

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2025/12/08

The median US income is $68,000. Only 13% of the US workforce earns a salary; everyone else is paid by the hour or hustling in the gig economy. The median home price is $440,000. Housing is unaffordable because the system is built to extract value rather than create stability.“Affordable housing” is a great idea. But flawed. It relies on outdated subsidies, wage assumptions that no longer hold, and ownership models that extract rather than stabilise. Chris Moeller joins Mark and Jeremy to Think on

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00:04:51

What Is Consciousness? │ Quantum Panpsychism,...

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2025/12/05

What is consciousness? You think I'm arrogant enough to sit here and tell you how to think about the inner workings of your mind... No... I'm not Sir Roger Penrose.. Instead, we'll use the words of Federico Faggin and his incredible book, Irreducible. Do we agree with it? Quantum based panpsychism? A conscious universe run by quantum conscious units called Seities? Not sure yet. Only in the last hundred years, with the advent of quantum physics, have we made great strides in

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00:45:25

Enshitification of the Internet: Trust, Funnels and...

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2025/12/04

How do brands build trust when the internet has decayed into into AI-driven slop and tripe? The systems that once promised connection now work as mirrored cages, feeding your biases, hiding your real customer, and distorting the truth.Nick Richtsmeier, founder of CultureCraft and writer at Damns Given, argues that brands now live inside engineered distortions. Funnels collapse. Neutrality is impossible. And AI is being layered onto a system already built to extract rather than empower.In this

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00:41:09

AI and the Illusion of Intelligence: Born to Think │...

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2025/11/27

Are you born to think, or built to think? What if the real Turing Test was never about technology, but about us? Philosopher Pia Lauritzen breaks down why AI was designed to deceive us, why ChatGPT doesn't help you think and how questions shapes human identity.Disruptors and Curious minds™, It's Thursday, we're live, and Mark and Jeremy are Thinking On Paper with Pia about how questions shape knowledge, trust, and the boundaries of human thought. AI is the cross hairs, and we're

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00:09:55

The First Neutron Star Discovery: Jocelyn Burnell,...

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2025/11/26

What makes neutron stars so fascinating that they once fooled astronomers into thinking they were aliens? In this episode of Thinking On Paper, we sit down with Katia moskvitch, science journalist and author, to explore the wild discoveries and cosmic mysteries around pulsars and the densest objects in the universe.Why were neutron stars only theoretical for decades, and who first imagined their existence? How did Jocelyn Bell Burnell, a then-PhD student in 1967, discover these cosmic lighthouses

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00:03:36

The Car That Stops You From Making a Fatal Overtake:...

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2025/11/24

Everyone thinks they are a great driver. Most drivers think they can judge a safe overtake. They can’t. In this Thinking On Paper shot, Barry Lunn breaks down the sensor technology that sees eight cars ahead, detects velocity before brake lights appear, and intervenes when the driver is about to make a mistake.Radar, not cameras, not lidar, could be the backbone of next-generation driver assistance. We get into how millimetre-wave signals bounce around traffic, how machines detect danger long before

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00:05:20

5 Steps To Make A Quantum Computer │ DiVincenzo's...

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2025/11/22

What if someone handed you the recipe for a quantum computer? In this episode, that’s exactly what happens.Coleman Collins of IonQ breaks down DiVincenzo’s criteria, (a checklist proposed by physicist David DiVincenzo) the five capabilities any physical system needs before it can call itself a quantum computer. There are five criteria.A well-defined qubitAbility to initialize qubits. You must be able to reliably set every qubit to a known starting state.Long coherence times. The qubits must remain

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00:42:53

Electronics That Survive Space | Power Conversion,...

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2025/11/21

Radiation-hardened space electronics don’t get splashy headlines, but nothing in orbit works without them. Starship, the ISS, Amazon’s Project Kuiper, Starlink... the whole caboodle depends on hardware that keeps running when the vacuum, extreme temperatures, and radiation of space would annihilate your laptop plug on Earth.The extreme environments of space are no place for trial and error with the small things. Danny Andreev, CEO of Sunburn Schematics, designs those systems for real missions. In

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00:04:33

Quantum Consciousness: The Man Who Saved the World...

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2025/11/20

If the military had been using AIs in 1983, everyone would be dead. Machines will never be conscious, and that animal instinct saved the world. This is the story:On 26 September 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov sat in a Soviet early-warning bunker watching computers tell him that US nuclear missiles were on their way. The data said “launch.” His intuition said “wait.” Petrov chose to override the system and, in doing so, probably saved the world.In this Thinking on Paper Book Club short,

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00:06:42

Humanity Centered Design: Don Norman Explains The...

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2025/11/19

Don Norman gives the clearest, most accessible explanation of humanity centered design there is. He invented the concept, after all.In this Thinking On Paper short, the Godfather of Design lays out the foundations of why design must expand beyond the individual user and account for society, the planet, and long-term impact. The core idea is simple: designing for individual users is no longer enough. “What’s wrong,” he says, “is what’s left out.” Every digital product relies on a physical product

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00:03:27

5 Billion Humanoids By 2030 | Starcloud CEO Unravels...

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2025/11/18

Can humanoids dance? Or will the billions of Tesla human robots choose to forgo such technological frivolity? And why is the universe so empty? Where is all the extraterrestrial life....If space colonization and exploration of the galaxy is fundamental to a level 2 or 3 Kardashev civilization, surely there should be aliens knocking around this corner of the Milky Way?Perhaps they don't like us. Perhaps they don't want to change our trajectory and choose to remain hidden, giving reckless glances of

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00:06:54

AI Agents 101: What They Are, Who’s Building Them,...

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2025/11/15

AI agents can read feeds, make decisions, coordinate with other agents, and even speak on your behalf. In this short conversation, Andrew Hill breaks down what an agent actually is, why every company is racing to build them, and how close we are to personal agents that manage our schedules, explain our thinking, and interact with other people’s agents without us in the loop.The discussion pushes into a harder question: people are already sharing their most intimate details with AI. At what point do

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00:03:32

Jimi Hendrix In Space: Why Every Mars Mission Needs a...

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2025/11/14

To survive in space, you don’t just need engineers. You need a musician. Ideally, a guitarist. Fortunately, the technology for this exists. Jeremy and Mark think on paper with physicist and CEO of Sunburn Schematics, Danny Andreev. What starts as a question about electrical engineering and power supplies in space, turns into human psychology and Mars Mission survival. Elon, are you listening?🎸 Could Jeremy's 1969 Vibrolux guitar amp actually work in space? What modifications would it need to

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