Thinking on Paper: Technology Moves Fast, Think Slower

• Space-Based Solar Power Explained in 5 Minutes │ Former Solar Lead and Space Energy Insights CEO Sanjay Vijendran

  Space-based solar power: what it is, why it wasn’t viable for decades, and what’s changed?ESA’s Former Solar Lead and Space Energy Insights CEO Sanjay Vijendran explains how power beaming works, what’s been proven, and the engineering still to solve.What you’ll learn (in 5 minutes)🛰️ Why the idea stalled for 50+ years and why falling launch/assembly costs now matter. 🛰️ How wireless power transmission actually works (no cable, no new physics) and what’s been demonstrated since the 1960s. 🛰️ A real test: 2 kW beamed across 36 m in 2022, used to light a model city, run electrolysis, and even cool beers, within safety limits. 🛰️ Near-term vs. long-term uses: megawatt delivery to remote sites vs. gigawatt-scale plants that could power cities. 🛰️ The big hurdle: scaling antennas/rectennas and building kilometer-scale modular arrays assembled by robots in orbit. Please enjoy the show. And share with a curious friend. Stay disruptive, be curious, keep Thinking On Paper.📺 Watch the full show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53c08ygOFyc&t=1074s--Timestamps(00:00) Why Energy Poverty Still Matters(01:26) How Beaming Power Actually Works(04:09) The Big Problem: Scaling It Up(04:56) Can It Ever Be Affordable?(07:19) Building Solar Farms in Space--Other ways to connect with us:⁠Listen to every podcast⁠Follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠Follow us on ⁠X⁠Follow Mark on ⁠LinkedIn⁠Follow Jeremy on ⁠LinkedIn⁠Read our ⁠Substack⁠Email: [email protected]

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• Don Norman’s Last Warning: Design Built This Mess. Can It Save Us? │ REMASTERED

  At 88, Don Norman, the godfather of design, issues his final warning: the same mindset that gave us convenience also gave us climate collapse, inequality, and fragile institutions. Design isn’t decoration. It’s power. It built the products we use, the systems we depend on, and the crises that now threaten us.“Human-centered” design sounds good, but it isn’t enough. Norman argues it has blinded us to bigger responsibilities , ecosystems, culture, and the generations who will inherit our mistakes. We need Humanity Centered Design.In this conversation Don Norman Thinks on Paper with Mark and Jeremy about:Has human-centered design failed?Why are climate summits designed to fail before they begin?How did STEM education strip out wisdom?Can empathy ever be built into systems at scale?Can humanity centered design help us survive, or will it keep driving us toward collapse?Please enjoy the interview with Don Norman.--Timestamps(00:09) Why Design Shapes the World We Live In(00:37) How Design Shapes Human Behavior (Often Without Us Noticing)(06:00) Why Most Solutions Don’t Matter — and What Real Design Should Do(09:10) Humanity-Centered Design: What It Really Means(22:16) Can Design Help Us Avoid Collapse?(26:51) Why Communities Hold the Answers, Not Just Experts(28:49) The Spark That Starts Humanity-Centered Design(30:18) How Young Designers Can Change the Future(33:16) Working Together Across Borders(35:39) Measuring What Matters, Not Just What’s Easy(37:06) Why Empathy Can’t Be an Afterthought(42:05) Thinking Beyond the Next Quarter — Business for the Long Term(45:02) Rethinking Education for the Next Generation(46:43) The Hard Questions We Still Need to Answer--Other ways to connect with us:⁠Listen to every podcast⁠Follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠Follow us on ⁠X⁠Follow Mark on ⁠LinkedIn⁠Follow Jeremy on ⁠LinkedIn⁠Read our ⁠Substack⁠Email: [email protected]

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• Tired of AI Billionaires Screwing Up the World? You Won’t Like This - Empire of AI, Karen Hao: Book Review, Part 2

  Empire of AI by Karen Hao exposes the hidden workers behind ChatGPT. Content moderators in Kenya, Venezuela, and Colombia paid pennies to train OpenAI’s models.In this episode, Mark gets spicy, Jeremy gets angry and the world wakes up to the human cost of training ChatGPT. It's an Empire of AI book review, but not as you know it. 📖 The hidden labor that trains ChatGPT and other large language models 📖 How Big Tech silences critical voices while racing ahead with AI 📖 Why “ethical AI” often ignores the people actually building it 📖 What Empire of AI reveals about the future of humanity and power    And please, stay disruptive, stay curious, keep thinking on paper.Peace and love. Forever. Other ways to connect with us:⁠Listen to every podcast⁠Follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠Follow us on ⁠X⁠Follow Mark on ⁠LinkedIn⁠Follow Jeremy on ⁠LinkedIn⁠Read our ⁠Substack⁠Email: [email protected]🕰️ TIMESTAMPS(00:00) Trailer(02:00) Introduction to Empire of AI & Karen Hao(03:41)Shifting power dynamics in Silicon Valley(03:59) Karen Hao’s warnings in Empire of AI(04:56) Humanity V the relentless race for scale(06:32) The environmental impact of AI systems(07:38) Stochastic parrots: Silencing Critics(09:48) Sam Altman Loves A Military Quote(10:53) What Cost Humanity?(15:14) The global race for AI advancement(18:32) The hidden labor behind ChatGPT(25:07) The ethical dilemma at the heart of AI development

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• IBM’s Quantum Crash Course: Why Today’s Computers Fail │ Short Thoughts #3

  Quantum computers are noisy and unstable. Even simple operations are error-prone, around 1 in every 1,000 goes wrong.How do we get from here to quantum advantage, the computing promised land when quantum systems outperform classical machines at every task, solve the climate crisis, invent new materials, cure disease and send humanity skipping into the future with hope, optimism and AI that behaves itself?In this short episode, Oliver Dial, CTO of IBM Quantum, explains why today’s quantum computers make mistakes, what error correction really means, and how IBM’s roadmap could deliver fault-tolerant quantum computing by 2029. He also shares why chemistry and materials science may be the first fields transformed by quantum breakthroughs.Please enjoy the show. And share with your most curious friend. --Other ways to connect with us:⁠Listen to every podcast⁠Follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠Follow us on ⁠X⁠Follow Mark on ⁠LinkedIn⁠Follow Jeremy on ⁠LinkedIn⁠Read our ⁠Substack⁠Email: [email protected]📺 Watch the show on ourdedicatedd YouTube Channel

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• Personal AI: Who Owns the Version of You That Lives Forever?│ Rob LoCascio

  What if you could use your own AI to keep speaking to your loved ones, even after they’re gone (and you’re dead)?Rob LoCascio is the entrepreneur who invented online chatbots. Now he’s building something more ambitious: personal AI designed to preserve your voice, values, and wisdom so your family can keep talking to you forever.In this episode of Thinking on Paper, sit down with Mark and Jeremy and learn:Why old chatbots are dead and what comes next in artificial intelligenceHow personal AI, digital immortality, and AI afterlife technology could change the way families remember usWhy data ownership will decide whether this future helps or harmsThe role of technology in preserving human legacy and identityIt’s a story of technology. It’s a story of legacy. It's a story of artificial intelligence. And it raises the biggest question of all: who controls the version of you that lives on? After listening to the show, you'll be asking yourself: would you do it? Please enjoy the show. And share with a curious friend. Be disruptive, stay curious. Keep Thinking On Paper.--Other ways to connect with us:⁠Listen to every podcast⁠Follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠Follow us on ⁠X⁠Follow Mark on ⁠LinkedIn⁠Follow Jeremy on ⁠LinkedIn⁠Read our ⁠Substack⁠Email: [email protected]:(00:00) The future of AI starts here(02:11) How AI is changing human connection forever(05:55) Where AI meets humanity(11:54) The story that sparked personal AI(19:50) Why you must own your AI before it owns you(20:10) The hidden vault of your data(22:31) Why voice is the next big interface(25:11) How AI will slip into daily life?(25:36) Can personal AI be monetized?(27:14) The fight to regulate AI(27:52) What AI means for being human(29:46) Will your knowledge outlive you?(32:05) How to build your personal AI identity(33:28) Writing the story of your life with AI--Peace and Love. Always. Mark & Jeremy

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