Wider explorations
This is, honestly, a bit of a dumping ground for my other intellectual exploits. The pieces are not entirely random, however. They are connected by my curiosity about how technology will build the future, how abundance can emerge from unlikely places, and how we can use technology to make human lives better.
Geographic perspectives within this idea territory.
A curated route into the central arguments, rather than a chronological dump.
I brought ten years of medical reports, wearable data, training records and personal notes into one AI-assisted health dashboard. What became visible changed my conversations with health professionals, and my view of what AI health companies can defensibly sell.
Read →“The purpose of a thought-experiment … is not to predict the future … but to describe reality, the present world.” – Ursula K. Le Guin A few weeks ago I watched a video of a humanoid robot learning to fight. A Chinese-made bipedal machine, trained by reinforcement learning, discovering how to destabilise another bipedal opponent….
Read →By José Pereira Leal To the memory of Gordon Hisashi Sato (1927–2017), Scientist extraordinaire who inspired me, and many others, to imagine new rivers through the desert. Like many of his generation who witnessed the horrors of World War II, he dedicated his science and life to the service of humanity Image created with ChatGPT…
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