Writing

Yesterday Google’s paper announcing a first instance of “quantum supremacy” was published in Nature . Not surprisingly for those who have followed the topic there is now a healthy debate around what that actually means. Google was celebrating in a big [...]  Read more

This morning I will be on a panel at Columbia University about Universal Basic Income (UBI) and the climate crisis as part of a conference on the Green New Deal . In my view UBI should be a central component [...]  Read more

Here we are again in 2019 debating speech online and specifically the case of Facebook. Zuckerberg speaks at Georgetown trying to invoke the civil rights movement and to draw a sharp distinction to China . Warren quickly fires back on [...]  Read more

It is fascinating to see at the moment how much China is flexing its power. And maybe as importantly how little the world is pushing back. Certainly on the commercial side we are finding that companies such as Apple which [...]  Read more

Last Monday in my series about the climate crisis , I posted about the potential of reversing the carbon cycle : grow plants to remove carbon from the atmosphere and put it back into the ground. Here now are some [...]  Read more

Back to writing about the climate crisis . Today is the beginning of a week of action by Extinction Rebellion  – they are pushing for carbon neutrality by 2025. As promised before I will start looking at solutions. Following my [...]  Read more

Today we have launched a new website for USV . It is the second complete overhaul of the site since USV launched with a blog in 2004 (modulo some smaller experiments with tagging in between). The new site is up [...]  Read more