Thinking On Paper Technology Podcast

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...

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...

AI can answer your questions faster than any human. It can write your emails, help you code, and shape the way you see the world - and the people in it. But from the very beginning, AI was designed to deceive you. This...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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AI Ethics is a mirage straight from a Kafka novel. Questions of justice, principles and the rule of law are incompatible with machine learning. Machine learning is statistical analysis of data that outputs responses...

Exxon & Chevron are using Microsoft AI to 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...

What is a spin qubit? 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...

Mind Blowing to the banks, but Stablecoins already move more volume than Visa and Mastercard combined! There's a financial revolution in the air, and this time, you're invited. Robby Yung, CEO of Animoca Brands, shows...

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...

AI Music is exploding. In fact, you're probably listening to AI generated music and don't even realise it. But rest assured, the musicians whose beats, rhymes and livelihood were stolen to train the models are well...

If quantum computers already exist, why can’t they do anything useful? The issue isn’t quantum mechanics, it’s control. Every qubit must be tuned, stabilized, and kept coherent, and that process collapses long before...

Helium-3 is essential for fusion energy, quantum computing, and tracking nuclear weapons. The U.S. has just 29 kilograms, and there may be as little as 100 kilograms on Earth. But aerospace engineer Glen Martin cites...

AI ethics sounds reassuring. Carissa Véliz argues it’s a contradiction: you can’t build “ethical” systems on surveillance. The result isn’t accountability, it’s rule by opaque models you can’t inspect or appeal. That’s...

In early 2025, 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. A question about the future and technology: What should...

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 orbit to Earth. This is where billions of dollars of that space...

Generative AI is in schools, education is being rewritten and your kids probably know more than their teachers. According to the Alan Turing Institute’s national report, one in four UK children aged 8 to 12 now use...