Mark Fielding

Big Tech convinced us smartphones are conveniences, not surveillance devices. Oxford philosopher @carissaveliz reframes what we're actually carrying on the Thinking On Paper podcast: "If you told someone in the 1950s, we're gonna have this system, and it's gonna rely on surveillance the way we think it's okay to surveil a criminal, but not anyone else, people in the 1950s would be shocked for good reason. That's why Big Tech is so successful at the narratives—it's how they package the product. If you package it like one of those electronic devices that people on parole have to use, then it looks a lot less attractive, but it really is quite similar to that."

Submarines and crypto traders have the same quantum sensor needs.

Who knew GPS was really a clock, not a map.

Space junk maestros @astroscale_HQ adopted a 3-pronged strategy to try to move the needle on space debris. 1: develop cost-effective ADR technologies. 2: create a business case for its technologies. 3: inform and eventually help shape international policies around space debris. From the Thinking On Paper Space to Grow season. PS: we don't have fancy graphics and editors. Don't let that put you off.

This NVIDIA Jetson Edge GPU boasts capabilities comparable to massive GPUs from just a few years ago, all in a palm-sized bundle.

In 2021 their magnetic docking system worked in space for the first time. We learn all about it in Book Club - open.spotify.com/episode/4LVZky…

In 2017 Astroscale's rocket exploded on a Siberian launch pad. Four years of work. Gone. They raised $100 million within a year. And went again.

In 2009 a Russian satellite collided with an American one at 22,300 miles per hour. 150,000 pieces of debris. Nobody paid for it. Nobody cleaned it up. Because nobody had to.

Absolute herculean effort by the team. Excited to share more about some of our probablistic primitves in silicon.

Electromagnetic mass drivers on the Moon

This is the ultra-high vacuum glass cell at the core of Infleqtion's quantum sensors, clocks and computers.

Infleqtion and NASA are sending a quantum gravity gradiometer into space.

Will the Space Resources Treaty be wallpaper?

Does blocking China from our tech just make them more determined? Case in point, Tiangong.

Mine them asteroids!

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Underwater quantum clocks on UK submarines.