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 transcribedExxon and Chevron are using Microsoft AI to extract more oil. Faster. Cheaper. The goal: every last drop.Holly and Will Alpine (Enabled Emissions) pai...
Brandon Severin (CEO, Conductor Quantum) explains spin qubits and the complex nature of quantum computing. With a lion.Take one electron. Put it in a...
Stablecoins already move more volume than Visa and Mastercard combined. There's a financial revolution in the air, and the banks don't want you involv...
China built its space station Tiangong in three years after being excluded from the ISS. It landed on the Moon twice—2020 and 2024—returning samples f...
You're listening to AI-generated music and don't realize it. The musicians whose work trained those models know. They check their empty bank accounts...
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....
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 orbi...
A quarter of British 8 to 12 year olds have used generative AI. ChatGPT is the most popular tool, Snapchat AI is second. Half of teachers say they've...
IBM's Lory Thorpe warns that quantum computers could soon crack the encryption protecting our banks, health records, and personal data, enabling "harv...
Murray Thom, VP of Quantum Technology Evangelism at D-Wave, joins us to break down how D-Wave’s quantum computing technology (as used by NASA, VW, Loc...
Twelve metric tons and a SpaceX rocket. That’s all it would take to begin building industry on the Moon. Factories would rise. Humanoids would adapt....
A 16-year-old in Barcelona dropped out of school, fell in love with ChatGPT, and built a $2 million business selling nasal breathing strips with a sin...
Kevin Kelly is the most interesting man on the planet. The founder of Wired has spent the last few years asking one question: what is AI? His books ha...
For decades, the idea of harvesting solar energy from orbit belonged to science fiction. The theory was sound—collect sunlight in space and beam it to...
Don Norman is not happy. The same mindset that gave us convenience also gave us climate collapse, inequality, and fragile institutions. Design isn’t d...
AI data annotation, RLHF, and the hidden labor behind ChatGPT are the focus of this Thinking on Paper Book Club episode on Karen Hao’s Empire of AI. W...
Quantum computers make mistakes — a lot of them. One in every thousand calculations can be wrong.In this Thinking on Paper Pocket Edition, Mark and Je...
When it comes to Personal AI, Rob LoCascio knows best. Having spent three decades teaching machines to talk as the founder of LivePerson, he helped cr...
Seemingly conscious AI is a real threat. The AI Zombies are coming and you're not ready.A man takes his own life after months of talking to a chatbot....
Kevin Kelly believes the next cultural shock won’t come from AI outsmarting us, but from it feeling something, or seeming to. He predicts that once we...
