gaspardbos

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.