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TOP Tech Podcast & Book Club

Top Tech Podcast With Mark Fielding and Jeremy Gilbertson

We interview the people building AI, quantum computers, and spaceships. Then try to figure out what it means for the rest of us. IBM. NASA. Coinbase. D-Wave. The physicist who says consciousness is quantum. The guy printing moon habitats. The philosopher who collected 30,000 questions. The CEO who buried the word "sustainability" in his backyard. We ask why they"re building it this way. Who benefits. What breaks. What you should actually worry about. We also run a book club. Disruptors and

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00:06:42

Humanity Centered Design: Don Norman Explains The...

TOP Tech Podcast & Book Club ·

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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00:01:41

A Technology-Ish Podcast: The Thinking On Paper Trailer

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2025/11/14

Curious Minds Learn about THE REAL IMPACT of technology 👇 Thinking on Paper goes holistic. Your learning goes ballistic.Other ways to connect with us:⁠Listen to every podcast⁠Follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠Follow us on ⁠X⁠Follow Mark on ⁠LinkedIn⁠Follow Jeremy on ⁠LinkedIn⁠Read our ⁠Substack⁠Email: hello@thinkingonpaper.xyzAI, Quantum computing, space manufacturing, robotics and Web3! From the CEOS and Silicon Valley Founders spending millions and billions making them useful.Or destroying the planet for

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00:04:17

AI Ethics Is A Lie: Carissa Véliz on Surveillance and...

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2025/11/13

AI makes decisions you can’t question. You don’t see the rules, you don’t see the reasoning, and you can’t challenge the outcome. Carissa Véliz argues that calling anything “AI ethics” misses the point entirely.In a reality check more people need to hear, Véliz shows how the whole setup depends on surveillance and statistical pattern-matching that can’t meet the basic standards of a democracy: clear rules and the ability to appeal a decision.In this Thinking on Paper Short, the author and Oxford AI

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00:04:30

Microsoft AI Is Turbo-Charging Fossil Fuel Extraction...

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2025/11/09

AI isn’t helping the planet. It’s helping Exxon, Chevron, BP and the rest find and extract more oil. Faster, cheaper. The goal? The extraction of every last drop of oil.Holly and Will Alpine of Enabled Emissions paint a stark picture. Just look at Microsoft’s own figures: Ai contracts signed for 50,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day with Exxon and 400,000 barrels a day with Chevron. That’s roughly 6.4 million and 51 million tonnes of CO₂ a year. Microsoft’s entire FY23 footprint was about 17

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00:04:10

Squeeze A Trillion SPIN QUBITS On One NVIDIA Chip |...

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2025/11/08

What is a spin qubit? One electron in a magnetic field, controlled by gates on silicon.Brandon Severin, CEO of Conductor Quantum, explains it like this: put a single electron in a magnetic field and it behaves like a tiny compass needle with two orientations, spin-up and spin-down. Those are your 0 and 1. By isolating that electron on a gated silicon device and hitting it with precise pulses, you can flip, hold, and combine those states (superposition).He also explains that spin qubits are built

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00:03:20

STABLECOIN Transactions Are Higher Than Visa &...

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2025/11/07

Stablecoins already move more volume than Visa and Mastercard combined! And with only 200 million users. Robby Yung, CEO of Animoca Brands, shows how people move dollars across borders in minutes with near-flat fees, from market traders in Nigeria to institutions shifting tens or hundreds of millions. This is a short from our full length deep dive into web3, the decentralized internet, DOAs, AI and what Animoca has in store for the coming year.Subscribe to Thinking on Paper for the full

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00:05:13

The POLITICS of Space: USA V China

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2025/11/06

China built its space station Tiangong in three years after being excluded from the ISS program. It landed on the Moon in 2020 and 2024, returning samples from areas with high helium-3. Now the fight is over rules, resources, and who decides what happens on the Moon.In this short, aerospace designer Glen Martin explains how China’s program moves from high-speed rail and grid power at home to the Moon: far-side lunar samples (via a relay network and nuclear-powered rover), a 2029 crewed landing plan,

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00:27:05

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

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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...

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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...

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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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