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 transcribedMost people have no idea Snapchat is the biggest AR company on Earth, because nobody has ever called it that. We talk with Michael Guerin, founder and...
Every year, Tom Whitwell—reformed journalist, reformed consultant, electronic instrument designer—publishes 52 surprising things he learned. This year...
The machines do not need to wake up. The risk is the illusion.When AI convincingly claims subjective experience—"I feel," "I understand," "I care abou...
Quantum computing doesn't make computers faster. It changes what's computable.Joe Fitzsimons, CEO of Horizon Quantum, explains why quantum progress is...
Making music used to require heartbreak, bleeding fingers, and a thousand late nights. Now, with SUNO, you can write AI songs in 30 seconds.This chang...
America has a Technological inferiority complex. China makes over half the world's lithium batteries. They produce 90% of neodymium magnets. They mine...
Median US income: $68,000.Median home price: $440,000.The math doesn't work.Only 13% of Americans earn a salary. Everyone else gets paid hourly or hus...
What is consciousness?Federico Faggin—physicist, inventor of the microprocessor—says it's not created by brains. It's fundamental to reality. Everythi...
The internet decayed into AI slop. Marketing became manipulation. Trust disappeared.How do brands build real connections when platforms feed you lies,...
AI answers faster than any human. But can it help you think? Does it erode critical thinking, or augment it? Pia Lauritzen has analyzed 30,000 questio...
What makes neutron stars so fascinating that they once fooled astronomers into thinking they were aliens?1967: PhD student Jocelyn Bell Burnell discov...
Everyone thinks they're a great driver. They're wrong.Most drivers think they can judge a safe overtake. They can't. And that's why we crash.Barry Lun...
What if someone handed you the recipe for a quantum computer?Coleman Collins of IonQ breaks down DiVincenzo's criteria—the five capabilities any syste...
Radiation-hardened electronics don't get headlines. But nothing in orbit works without them.Starship, ISS, Starlink, Project Kuiper—all depend on hard...
September 26, 1983. Soviet bunker. Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov watches computers say US nuclear missiles are incoming.The data says: Launch.Hi...
We speak to Don Norman about humanity centered design. The godfather of design explains why we need Humanity-Centered Design—a shift from individual u...
Philip Johnston is CEO of Starcloud. They build data centers in space. Their first satellite just launched on SpaceX Falcon 9. You can track it orbiti...
AI agents can read feeds, make decisions, coordinate with other agents, and speak on your behalf, without you in the loop.Andrew Hill explains what ag...
To survive in space, you don't just need engineers. You need a musician. Preferably a guitarist.Jeremy asks physicist Danny Andreev (CEO, Sunburn Sche...
Carissa Veliz joins us again to speak about AI Ethics, a mirage straight from a Kafka novel. Questions of justice, principles and the rule of law are...
