Thinking On Paper

Bruce Lee’s ghost influences us like very few others. Bob Marley, Muhammad Ali: these are the icons his legend walks with. In Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America, Jeff Chang takes us inside kung...

What would a gamer do with a quantum computer? Or a musician? Harry Kumar, co-founder of Moth Quantum, thinks quantum computing needs creativity to push quantum forwards, so we're going to find out. Moth built Quantum...

Data centers use water to cool air, not chips. The water chills the air that gets blown across the racks, and that is where it evaporates. Remove the air and you remove most of the water. Simon Jesenko runs Iceotope...

We read the National Space Transportation Policy in full. Signed 20 August 2026, it shreds the 2013 directive and rewrites how the US gets into space, moves around up there, and comes back down. The War Department is...

Why do we stop asking questions as adults? Philosopher Pia Lauritzen has analysed 30,000 of them, and says nothing was ever lost. The ability stays. What changes is the price. Every question admits you don't know...

The US and China are racing to build AI systems that could lead to superintelligence before any enforceable global rules exist to inspect them, limit them or verify what they can do. Mark and Jeremy Think On Paper about...

AI companies are splashing billions on more GPUs before they use the ones they already have. Many sit idle, others use a fraction of their potential. For the hyperscalers, cloud providers and AI companies, buying more...

Would you eat meat made in a lab? Could cultivated meat replace industrial farming without asking billions of people to change what they eat? Bruce Friedrich, founder of the Good Food Institute and author of Meat...

Asteroid mining sounds insane until you speak to AstroForge CEO Matthew Gialich. Then it makes perfect sense. Matthew’s team at AstroForge builds spacecraft to mine metallic M-type asteroids for platinum group metals...

Can you spot real progress in quantum computing, or are you falling for the noise? In today’s show, Dr. Bob Sutor takes us on a masterclass through the hype and conflicting headlines to the reality of quantum technology...

Have you used Google Search recently? Exactly. Most companies, and most people, still think about Google when they think about search. They’re still spending heavily to rank there and paying for the ads around it. But...

The UK produces world-class technology and is home to exceptional tech entrepreneurs. All too often it watches them scale in America. Rory Daniels, Head of Emerging Technology and Innovation at techUK, joins Thinking on...

The Vij brothers join Thinking on Paper to discuss Neo, an autonomous machine learning engineer designed to automate parts of the AI development process. As demand for AI systems grows, companies and governments are...

We read NASA’s Moon Base User’s Guide and ask what it would take to establish a sustained human presence on the Moon. A permanent lunar base requires far more than rockets, landers and astronauts. NASA and its partners...

Sanjay Vijendran of TerraSpark joins Thinking on Paper to explain how space-based solar power could become a practical source of clean energy. TerraSpark is developing wireless power-transmission systems that could...