Jacob Cole
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Notebooks that think with you
CS
Philosophy
Knowledge Graphs
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A world where knowledge tools augment intelligence as you think — where notebooks become thinking partners and the connections between ideas are as tangible as the ideas themselves.
Daanish Shabbir
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Physics runtimes for autonomous agents
EE
Physics
Fiction
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A general gateway to all known physics for autonomous agents — where form and content are inextricably tied, and software enacts critique rather than merely stating it.
Bret Victor
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Computing as a communal, physical medium
Interface Design
EE
CS
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If there is any delay in the feedback loop between thinking something and seeing it, there is a whole world of ideas which will never be. You can fight for a principle by inventing.
Neri Oxman
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Where the natural and artificial are indistinguishable
Architecture
Biology
Materials
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A future where one cannot differentiate between the natural and the artificial — a radical shift from human-centric design to Nature-centric design, where buildings age, decay, and return to nature.
Saad Bhamla
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Frugal science for billions
ChemE
Biophysics
Global Health
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I want to democratize not just the tools we create but the knowledge we use to identify a problem and come up with clear and clever solutions — for billions of people, at planetary scale.
Tom Currier
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Reinventing transit through sleep engineering
Engineering
Robotics
Design
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Transportation reimagined from first principles — from solar robotics to communal living to a patent-pending suspension system that makes the bumpiest road feel smooth. Thiel Fellow, Stanford dropout, serial builder.
Renaise Kim
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Design shaped by science fiction
Product Design
Visual Identity
Sci-Fi
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A world where art and technology converge through speculative thinking — where design shapes culture and the studio is a hybrid conceptual space built on science fiction.
Stephanie Zhang
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Poetry transfigured into proteins
Bioengineering
Media
Painting
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What is the unsayable aliveness that lies underneath phenomena? Investigating emergence and self-assembly through electrons, cells, and light — transfiguring poetry into proteins via bioprinting.
Patricia Mou
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Social architecture for meaning-making
Community Design
Urban Design
Philosophy
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Building spaces where the primary activity is meaning-making — fourth places beyond home, work, and social life. Co-founder of The Commons in Hayes Valley, SF. Harvard GSD. Exploring transubjectivity, prefigurative utopianism, and containers for emergence.
Linus Lee
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Personal software & tools for thought
Language Design
AI Interfaces
Tools for Thought
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Just as synthesizers decomposed music into waveforms and enabled entirely new creative forms, AI interpretability is doing the same for language. Building the instruments — personal software, new notations, latent-space interfaces — that let us think thoughts we couldn’t think before.
Nicole Hsing
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Inner monologue architectures for AI
Cognitive Science
AI
Philosophy
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Marrying code with creative expression, poetic prose woven with quantum physics — helping humanity remember and unlock the power each individual holds within.