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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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00:22:55

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 It relies on outdated subsidies, wage assumptions that no longer hold, and ownership models that extract rather than stabilise.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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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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