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  • June 6, 2024

    Killer Application: The Surprising Correlation Between Engineering Education and Terrorism

    It’s not that terrorists are desperate for tech-talent, it’s that engineering education breeds the type of mindset that’s conducive to extremism.


  • June 3, 2023

    Making Belief : A Brief History of World Expos

    World expos might have played out their roles today, but historically they’ve had three important functions to fill.


  • May 25, 2023

    Sundar Pichai in da House : Google’s CEO on AI, the Digital Divide and the Future of Robotics

    His soft spoken reflectiveness feels about as far away from your typical tech-bro as is possible to imagine.


  • May 24, 2023

    Atomic Swing : A Brief History of the Shifting Swedish Nuclear Policy

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


  • March 30, 2023

    A Brief History of AI

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


  • March 14, 2023

    Technolectual : Rise of the Tinker-Thinker

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


  • February 20, 2023

    Not Deployed Here

    In startup parlance, one could say that America is failing to capture enough of the value it creates.


  • February 15, 2023

    Just Because You Wrote It Doesn’t Mean You Own It

    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.


  • February 11, 2023

    Hi, Lo, Fast & Slow : Deeptech and a Brief History of Prefixes

    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.


  • February 5, 2023

    Engineering Isn’t What it Used to Be

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


  • January 12, 2023

    Good Grief, Bad Grief : How Tech is Threatening to Disrupt Mourning (And How Facing Climate Change Can Come to the Rescue)

    What a prospect to think that one day we won’t be able to tell the difference between a zoom call and talking to the dead.


  • December 22, 2022

    Missing Piece of the Fusion Puzzle : Novatron and the Return of Open Field Line Confinement

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


  • November 24, 2022

    The New New Normal

    Entering the parastronaut chapter, the space-space has just gotten even more inspirational!


  • November 7, 2022

    The Dirty Little Secret About Cyber Security : Not Too Complicated, Just Hard Work

    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.


  • October 18, 2022

    The Inconvenient Truth About the State of Swedish Cyber Security

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

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