Slow thoughts

Fei-fei Li has had a front-row seat to the cutting-edge development of AI over the past couple of decades. Her biography is captivating.

When doomers predict that AI will steal our jobs, we picture remote and futuristic scenarios. The real threat is mundane and it’s happening now, right before our noses.

Artificial or Augmented, which team do you root for?

If we could figure out how to achieve superconductivity at higher temperatures, it would be such a huge deal that the impact is hard to even imagine. This might just be on the brink of happening now…

Public discourse is swinging back into favouring nuclear power, but this time there’s a visionary mismatch between politicians and scientists.

Space as a vertical is as a bit of a dark horse. In racing parlance, that’s a term for a horse that is unknown to gamblers and thus difficult to establish betting odds for.

Call it NewSpace or call it what you want. However we label it, it’s exciting!

Artificial intelligence was always a natural part of the landscape, but it failed to really capture my attention. That recently changed.

There seems to be a word missing in the English language.

The value Microsoft captures by selling access to Copilot, is made on the back of thousands of unpaid volunteer coder’s contributions to open source projects.

Whoever picks up the bill for it, deeptech is a class of technologies with high potential impact, that require our patience to reach the market.

The toolbox of modern engineering contains a motley mix of approaches.

It’s not trivial to make fusion work, but a real breakthrough is now in the making, and it’s happening at KTH.

When the real truth starts seeping in, it feels like one of those detective stories where you realise in hindsight that the clues were there in plain view for anyone who cared to really look.

The nation is under constant attack and we’re ill prepared to fight back.