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Core Memory

On the Most Interesting People, Objects and Ideas in Science and Technology

Website ↗ Last published 2 November 2026 241 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on Core Memory

“I think we are embodied creatures, and I think that bypassing the body, I just don't understand it. I write with a fountain pen on paper. The full engagement of the body, not just the abstract stuff up here, but the motor cortex and down the arm to the hand. That is all part of thinking to me. It's not that there's thinking, which is this separate thing up here, and then this chunk of meat attached to it that's kind of dumb and stupid.” — Neal Stephenson, Core Memory
Neal Stephenson · 28 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I follow the teachers' subreddit and a bunch of other channels of information where actual teachers and actual classrooms talk about the problems they face, none of which can be solved by giving them a piece of technology. Okay, I mean, that is at the bottom of their list in terms of what they actually want.” — Neal Stephenson, Core Memory
Neal Stephenson · 28 Oct 2026 Listen →
“My theory is that the big bang of this was the last shot of Planet of the Apes, where you see the Statue of Liberty, it's fallen over… it's a super powerful image, but a very inexpensive one, right? So, I mean, they got a model of the Statue of Liberty and they kicked it over and threw some dirt on it… Whereas if you're trying to show a more positive kind of future, you know, you do have to do some pretty hard imagining.” — Neal Stephenson, Core Memory
Neal Stephenson · 28 Oct 2026 Listen →
“You either beg or you break the rules that don't actually matter. And we've done that many times.” — AJ Piplica, Core Memory
AJ Piplica · 21 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Interfaces are where risk resides. And what we've done is built a bureaucracy predicated on more and more interfaces.” — Zach Shore, Core Memory
Zach Shore · 21 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The real superpower of the American military is not the technology. It's the ability to contextualize and empower decision-making at the lowest levels to reduce interfaces, reduce handoffs.” — Zach Shore, Core Memory
Zach Shore · 21 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Every time we hear about these success stories of the mine owner that went on to do this and that, there's a thousand miners that came up here for a better life and never left this place. Some are still buried 200 feet below where we're sitting right now.” — Brent Underwood, Core Memory
Brent Underwood · 7 Oct 2026 Listen →
“If there is, in fact, a dystopian future, then I think the likelihood of waking up is negligible. Because dystopian futures don't care.” — Emil Kendziorra, Core Memory
Emil Kendziorra · 30 Sep 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Core Memory is hosted by Ashley Vance .

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