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The topics are climate tech, artificial intimacy, organic transistors, quantum super chemistry, the ministry for the future, strategy and AI embodiment
Read Ministry for the future.
The New Climate Tech
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/briefing/climate-technology-carbon-capture.html
Infusing clouds with sulfur dioxide to block the sun. Vacuuming carbon dioxide out of thin air. Adding iron to the ocean to draw greenhouse gases down to the sea floor.
The dangers of artificial intimacy
https://blog.chayn.co/the-dangers-of-artificial-intimacy-500493f10c84
What’s the harm in helping men feel less isolated? The trouble is that it doesn’t tackle the root of the problem: isolation
A new strategy for fabricating high-density vertical organic electrochemical transistor arrays
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-strategy-fabricating-high-density-vertical.html?
Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) are an emerging class of transistors based on organic superconducting materials.
Inside the 20-year quest to unravel the bizarre realm of ‘quantum superchemistry’
The term “superchemistry” was coined in 2000 to liken the phenomenon to other strange effects, like superconductivity and superfluidity, which emerge when large numbers of particles are in the same quantum state.
Widespread European Farmer Protests, Some Violent, are Another Dispatch from The Ministry for the Future
Of all the books OODA CEO Matt Devost has read over the past years, the stickiest has been “The Ministry for the Future” which contemplates the duality of conflict and innovation to address the realities of global climate change. Read https://www.ronimmink.com/the-ministry-for-the-future/
6 Strategic Concepts That Set High-Performing Companies Apart
https://hbr.org/2024/03/6-strategic-concepts-that-set-high-performing-companies-apart?
Borrow someone’s road. Partner with a third party. Reveal your strategy. Be good. Let the competition go. Adopt small scale attacks.
Does AI need a “body” to become truly intelligent?
https://firstfuturist.substack.com/p/does-ai-need-a-body-to-become-truly?
In recent times, robots are becoming a lot more important to how we are making progress in AI. LLMs are opening up new possibilities for embodied AI.