Thinking On Paper

Mining asteroids sounds crazy.

Mining two-kilometre-deep deposits on Earth forever may be crazier.

Mining asteroids for platinum sounds kind of insane until you listen to Matthew Gialich. Then it feels like the most logical response to a resource problem humanity could use right now.

Astroforge is building spacecraft to mine metallic asteroids for platinum group metals.

And they mean business.

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Born in the UK and operating globally, Wayve brings together advanced sensors, LLMs, connectivity and robotics into one autonomous vehicle system.

“Pioneering a new approach to assisted and automated driving, building end-to-end Embodied AI that scales across any vehicle, anywhere.”

And you might have seen them in London. Its vehicles have been testing there for years.

As Rory reminds us, the UK already has many of the ingredients for a healthy tech sector: universities, research institutions, government-backed science and technical depth across AI, robotics and connectivity.

The challenge is joining those pieces together, applying the right business models and scaling companies that can compete globally.

Can the UK do it?

Let’s hear your side of the argument.

Junk food is engineered for the taste buds, not the body. It exploits cravings that made sense when sugar and fat were scarce, then becomes harmful when those signals are saturated.

Carissa Véliz thinks that technology can work the same way. It can be designed around what we crave rather than what serves us, exploiting old human instincts in an environment where stimulation is constant.

Do you agree?