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Gritt
Albert Wenger – Jul 21, 2026
Infrastructure is one of the great accomplishments of human civilization. Early standout examples include the Roman road network and aqueducts and the even earlier sanitation systems of the Indus Valley Civilization. Modern life would be completely impossible without the extensive [...] Read more
Alqem
Albert Wenger – Jul 6, 2026
The universe of potential materials is vast. To get a sense for just how big it is consider the following: we want to combine three different elements (drawn from a subset of the periodic table of say only 10 elements) [...] Read more
Generalist
Albert Wenger – Jun 4, 2026
Humanity has benefited greatly from mechanizing and automating previously manual tasks. There was a time when fields were hoed by hand. Then we invented the plow and later the tractor. Today with precision farm equipment we can have no-till planting, [...] Read more
Modeling The AGI Economy
Albert Wenger – Mar 25, 2026
There is a heated debate about what an AGI-level economy might look like. On one side are pessimists who foresee extreme wealth concentration and a permanent precariat: people with no meaningful economic role, dependent on whatever crumbs fall from the [...] Read more
AI Bubble or Not?
Albert Wenger – Mar 24, 2026
Are we in an AI bubble or not? As someone who lived through the dotcom bubble as an investor there are many parallels and also significant differences. By many metrics we are in obvious bubble territory with fantastically extended valuations [...] Read more
Automated Software: Some Implications
Albert Wenger – Feb 7, 2026
I learned how to code on a Texas Instruments TI-59 programmable calculator and then moved on to an Apple II. The calculator had a kind of assembly language and on the Apple I had access to Basic but still wrote [...] Read more
Electroflow
Albert Wenger – Oct 1, 2025
The future is electric. Electric vehicles (the fastest “production” car in the world is now electric ). Electric stoves . Electric heat pumps . Electric robots . And of course all the compute powering the AI revolution. At USV we [...] Read more
Philosophy Mondays: Values (Part 3)
Albert Wenger – May 6, 2025
In the last two Philosophy Mondays we first defined what values are and then posed the question of a basis for values . The key requirements for such a basis is that it has to be objective so that it [...] Read more
Humane Genomics
Albert Wenger – Feb 13, 2025