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.
130 episodes transcribedSpace junk is becoming one of the biggest risks in low Earth orbit, from satellite collisions and Kessler syndrome to the millions of debris fragments...
Conductor Quantum founder Brandon Severin joins Thinking on Paper to explain Google’s latest quantum breakthrough, the race to scale beyond today’s ex...
Quantum computing for materials is moving closer to practical use because quantum computers, GPUs, CPUs, and AI coding tools are beginning to work tog...
Space SPACs promised to turn early space startups into public-market winners, but many collapsed before proving they had real products or real markets...
Infleqtion CEO Matt Kinsella joins Thinking on Paper to explain neutral atom quantum computing, quantum clocks, and why the future of computing may de...
Nvidia is treating quantum computing as the next stage of accelerated computing, not as a separate machine sitting apart from AI supercomputers. Sam S...
There are about 100 kilograms of helium-3 on planet Earth. The current US reserve is 29 kilograms. Global production runs around 20 kilograms per year...
There are now more non-democratic countries in the world than democratic ones. Only a third of Americans under 35 say it's vital to live in a democrac...
A hotel on the Moon sounds like science fiction, but Skyler Chan argues it is really a test case for lunar habitats and off-world surface habitation....
Philip Johnston is the CEO of Starcloud and launched an Nvidia H100 chip in space and gave a TED talk about it. As you do if you're responsible for bu...
Philip Metzger spent 30 years working at NASA. He's knows a lot about the physical, economic, and political problems of building space stations and st...
Drone delivery is not about filling the sky with quadcopters, Etienne Louvet argues. It is about rebuilding light-cargo logistics for places where van...
Can you use AI to think better or think more critically? Philosopher Pia Lauritzen says no. The second we give up to the shortcut use AI, we are letti...
What if you could use AI to make your own music without stealing other people's beats, rhymes and melodies? Unlike platforms trained on scraped catalo...
Marketing funnels don't exist. They never did. The internet just convinced us they were real. Meta, Google, OpenAI and a supporting cast of billionair...
Matt Kinsella runs Infleqtion, a company building quantum computers. The biggest misconception about quantum computing is that it will replace classic...
The International Space Station cost about $100 billion to build and runs another $4 billion a year to operate. For a long stretch, it absorbed roughl...
Two-thirds of data center outages are caused by someone pressing the wrong switch. Not a hacker, not a hardware failure. A person, in a room with thou...
SpaceX reusable rockets and NASA’s commercial space economy are the focus of this Space to Grow book club episode, covering chapters one to three of S...
John Bucknell made Raptor engines at SpaceX. He also designed a nuclear thermal turbo rocket. He now wants to solve energy. Ambitious young man. Virtu...
