Speculative Technologies
200 posts
Speculative Technologies
@Spec__Tech
Creating an abundant, wonder-filled future by unlocking powerful materials and manufacturing technologies that don’t have a home in other institutions.
Katılım Kasım 2022
63 Takip Edilen2.5K Takipçiler
Within ~2 years, there might be >0.5 Manhattan Projects worth of philanthropic $$$ to spend on the biggest challenges, like cyber or biodefense.
@nanransohoff is right: the hard part is finding enough good organizations to spend the $.
You should build one!
Nan Ransohoff@nanransohoff
New blog post: The third wave of American philanthropy Hundreds of billions of dollars in new philanthropic capital will soon become liquid. The OpenAI Foundation holds 26% of OpenAI, worth about $220B at today’s valuation. Anthropic’s seven co-founders have pledged to give away 80% of their wealth and have instituted the most aggressive donor matching program for employees in tech history. How much does this all add up to? And how meaningful is that in the context of philanthropy today? I was doing some simple napkin math to wrap my head around the scale of what’s coming, and radicalized myself in the process. I had dramatically underappreciated the scale of the philanthropic capital that’s about to become available and the corresponding gap in talent and organizations that will be needed to make the most of it. This piece aims to directionally sketch the scale of what’s coming, the gap in operational capacity needed to absorb it, and what we can do to fill it. (Link to full post in reply)
English
At the end of the day, it's people who create science and technology.
@di_goldene_pave founded Cosmic Frontier Labs to build a fleet of space telescopes designed to be produced, launched, and iterated on at a pace astronomy has never seen.
open.substack.com/pub/parpa/p/po…
English
Speculative Technologies retweetledi
An uncomfortable truth running under the current debates about science is that if a researcher can't fund their work out of their own pocket, someone else needs to feel like they're buying something valuable.
blog.spec.tech/p/research-has…
English
Speculative Technologies retweetledi
This is what @Spec__Tech is striving to be!
(There are some prerequisite things on the tech tree we need to take care of first.)
Leonie Freisinger@lcfreisi
can someone just work full-time on cool utopian technologies like the warp drive, the utility fog or iron man’s self-assembling nanotech??? i like @Ben_Reinhardt takes pretty well here - accelerating engineering & manufacturing processes is (partially) a way there
English
Speculative Technologies retweetledi
I'm super excited to go for bold science as part of the @Spec__Tech Brains accelerator! I am pursuing a mechanistic way of scaling up phase transformations with x-rays and simulations. Check out the cohort in their thread!
Speculative Technologies@Spec__Tech
@apoletayev is unlocking a new type of manufacturing data by tracking the paths of atoms as they assemble into materials during syntheses, especially if they do so rapidly.
English
You can read more about them and their work (and follow along) at blog.spec.tech/p/meet-the-202…
English
Will Plishker is developing a program that gives surgeons vision and skills beyond their innate human ability.
English
We're excited to introduce the 2026 cohort of Brains fellows!
These ambitious scientists and technologists are working on ambitious coordinated research programs to create everything from electric noses, to bacteria-fighting viruses, atom-tracking cameras, and more.
🧵
English