All original. All human. Thinking On Paper is a weekly technology podcast about AI, quantum computing, robotics, space infrastructure, privacy, media, energy and the future of human life. It's a show for people who know technology is changing everything, but don’t trust the hype merchants, doom merchants, or LinkedIn prophets to explain it. Every week, Mark Fielding and Jeremy Gilbertson speak to founders, CEOs, scientists, writers, philosophers and outliers about the technologies reshaping business, society, work, creativity, politics and power. For curious minds.
137 episodes transcribedNathan Silvernail quit SpaceX to make wood from grass.Building the first part of a rocket SpaceX ever reused - the nose cone - wasn’t enough. After a...
We read the National Space Transportation Policy in full. Signed 20 August 2026, it shreds the 2013 directive and rewrites how the US gets into space,...
Why do we stop asking questions as adults? Philosopher Pia Lauritzen has analysed 30,000 of them, and says nothing was ever lost.The ability stays. Wh...
Nicholas Ponari says AI music makes live performance more valuable, not less. Mark Fielding calls the same future a hellscape.Ponari's scenario: by 20...
The US and China are racing to build AI systems that could lead to superintelligence before any enforceable global rules exist to inspect them, limit...
AI companies are splashing billions on more GPUs before they use the ones they already have. Many sit idle, others use a fraction of their potential. ...
Would you eat meat made in a lab? Could cultivated meat replace industrial farming without asking billions of people to change what they eat? Bruce Fr...
Asteroid mining sounds insane until you speak to AstroForge CEO Matthew Gialich. Then it makes perfect sense.Matthew’s team at AstroForge builds space...
Can you spot real progress in quantum computing, or are you falling for the noise? In today’s show, Dr. Bob Sutor takes us on a masterclass through th...
Have you used Google Search recently? Exactly. Most companies, and most people, still think about Google when they think about search. They’re still s...
The UK produces world-class technology and is home to exceptional tech entrepreneurs. All too often it watches them scale in America.Rory Daniels, Hea...
The Vij brothers join Thinking on Paper to discuss Neo, an autonomous machine learning engineer designed to automate parts of the AI development proce...
We read NASA’s Moon Base User’s Guide and ask what it would take to establish a sustained human presence on the Moon.A permanent lunar base requires f...
Sanjay Vijendran of TerraSpark joins Thinking on Paper to explain how space-based solar power could become a practical source of clean energy.TerraSpa...
Jennifer Dunn, professor of chemical engineering at Northwestern University, joins Thinking on Paper to explain how lithium and copper mining affect w...
Anders Sandberg examines whether artificial general intelligence could manage the global economy more effectively than human institutions.A sufficient...
NASA scientist Philip Metzger joins Thinking on Paper to explain why Moon dust and rocket exhaust create a major engineering problem for future lunar...
Matthew Weinzierl and Brendan Rosseau, authors of Space to Grow, join Thinking on Paper to explain how the commercial space economy is developing and...
Scott Crowder, Vice President of IBM Quantum Adoption, joins Thinking on Paper to explain IBM’s approach to quantum-centric supercomputing.Rather than...
World famous Oxford futurist and philosopher Anders Sandberg joins Thinking on Paper to discuss transhumanism, mind uploading, artificial general inte...
