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gaspardbos

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I’ve been fascinated by technology since an early age and my looking at the world must have been influenced by the dinner table conversations with my parents who are physicists; trying to understand the smallest parts that make the universe work. Before starting school I was drawing airplanes. In primary school I wrote essays about magnetism, robots and hovercrafts. In highschool I got distracted and wrote about synesthesia, social interactions of first graders and Ovid’s metamorphoses. I went on to study Industrial Design Engineering and found a mission in sustainability engineering by creating weather stations for the North Pole and plastic recycling machines for 3d-printers. When I realized that making hardware is at the disadvantage of making software I got interested in the platforms and digital organization of our non-circular economy. This eventually led me to the study of AI and experimenting with it’s application for a circular economy. When I realized that I wasn’t making any money I did what any good self preserving agent would do; I became more pragmatic about work I did for money and political engagement I did for the betterment of society and mankind. After a few tries for a PhD position but struggling with fitting into the mold of academic contexts and the horrible pay that a PhD position has, I decided that my intellectual pursuits must find root elsewhere. I hope that engaging on this forum can be productive to this end.