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— According to Albert Einstein, who probably never imagined we'd be summoning demon particles and building 5,700-year batteries
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Week 38 of 52 // September 14th 🧿 20th, 2025
Welcome to the 126th edition! This week we delve into revolutionary energy storage breakthroughs, witness Canada's potential AI hardware dominance, and explore fundamental shifts in our understanding of physics itself. From diamond batteries that last millennia to massless demon particles, we're examining how scientific discoveries are reshaping our technological landscape.
The convergence of quantum mechanics, energy innovation, and artificial intelligence infrastructure paints a picture of accelerating progress and the profound changes we face as we navigate breakthrough technologies that seemed impossible just years ago.
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Diamond Batteries, Demon Particles, and AI Hardware Champions
This week's collection explores revolutionary advances in energy storage, quantum physics discoveries, and strategic technology investments. From batteries that outlast civilizations to particles that challenge our understanding of reality, we're witnessing scientific breakthroughs that will define the next century.
- Tech Executives Think Ottawa Could Be Sitting on a Future AI Hardware Champion
The Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre is one of the only plants of its kind in the world. Some want it privatized or spun out to take advantage of the AI boom. Read more at The Logic - New Graphene Material Makes Supercapacitors Rival Lead-Acid Batteries
New graphene material from Monash enables supercapacitors with battery-level energy and lightning-fast charging. Learn more at Interesting Engineering - The Netherlands Is the Second-Biggest Agricultural Exporter
The Netherlands is the world's second-largest agricultural exporter by value despite being only about the size of Maryland. Explore at Business Insider - The World's Most Innovative Countries
China joins the top ten in global innovation rankings, reshaping the competitive landscape. Discover at The Economist - Microsoft Announces 'World's Most Powerful' AI Data Center
315-acre site to house 'hundreds of thousands' of Nvidia GPUs and enough fiber to circle the Earth 4.5 times. Read at Tom's Hardware - First Law of Thermodynamics Has Been Rewritten: What It Means
Researchers have made a breakthrough in applying the first law of thermodynamics to complex systems, rewriting our understanding of energetic systems. Explore at Popular Mechanics - Scientists Discover Early Universe Magnetic Fields Were 0.02 Nanogauss
"Weak as Human Brain Activity": Using 250,000 computer simulations, scientists unveil surprising findings about cosmic magnetism. Learn more at Energy Reporters - The Science of Sacrifice: How Altruism and Evolution Can Work in Tandem
Hamilton's rule explains how helping others at your own expense can evolve when benefits to related individuals outweigh personal costs. Read at Phys.org - Goodbye to Chargers Forever—Scientists Unveil Diamond Battery
Revolutionary battery technology that can run 5,700 years without recharging, transforming our relationship with energy storage. Discover at Union Rayo - Scientists Have Summoned a Massless Demon Particle
Scientists found Pine's Demon, a massless, neutral plasmon, in strontium ruthenate, offering insights into high-temperature superconductors. Watch at Popular Mechanics
*CAUTION: Side effects might include your devices developing mysterious massless properties, finding yourself managing a Canadian photonics facility, or accidentally discovering that your supercapacitors have achieved sentience. You may also develop an inexplicable urge to calculate magnetic field strengths using only brain activity measurements.
This uncanny prediction is endorsed by the Association of Altruistic Quantum Physicists Currently Hiding in Dutch Agricultural Facilities, approved by a consortium of demon-particle-wielding Microsoft data center operators, and verified by a mysterious thermodynamic structure that defies the laws of physics while running on a 5,700-year battery.
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Unearthing gems in the digital landscape.
Because in the ever-evolving tech world, there's always more to learn and laugh about.
The Magic Kingdom Crumbles in Corporate Cowardice
The Most Expensive Strategy on Earth
Disney's Kimmel suspension triggered a subscriber exodus so massive it crashed their cancellation systems. The cost? More than technical failure—it exposed how institutional cowardice has become corporate America's most expensive strategy. When Mickey's white gloves are perfect for waving surrender flags, you know the Magic Kingdom has a authenticity problem. Read how fence-sitting became brand suicide.
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A Closer Look: Explorations in Technology
Weekly essay in the areas of blockchain, artificial intelligence, extended reality, quantum computing, and all the bits and pieces.
A Closer Look: Explorations in Technology
Weekly essay in the areas of blockchain, artificial intelligence, extended reality, quantum computing, and all the bits and pieces.
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From Southeast Mortality to AI Debates: Visual Stories of Human and Artificial Intelligence
This week's video collection explores the complex interplay between human health, artificial intelligence, and technological progress. We examine regional health disparities, AI expert disagreements, and the fascinating infrastructure projects that connect our physical and digital worlds.
- Did Scientists Just Figure Out Why People Die A DECADE Earlier in the Southeast US?
People living in the Southeastern United States die about a decade earlier on average than other Americans. At first glance, natural disasters don't seem to explain it. Watch on YouTube - AI Experts Debate the Future of AI (Opposite Opinions) Mo Gawdat & Steven Kotler
Get access to metatrends 10+ years before anyone else. Mo Gawdat is an author and former CBO of Google X. Steven Kotler offers contrasting perspectives. View on YouTube - Calm Traffic Needs More Than Calm Driving
Traffic jam waves are countered by more than individual behavior—systemic solutions matter more than individual actions. Explore on YouTube - How Montreal's Miracle Metro Could Change Everything
Montreal and CDPQ Infra are pulling off something unique with the REM, and we won't know how this plays out for decades. Learn more on YouTube - One of The Scariest Hackers I've Ever Met — Pablos Holman
Pablos Holman is a hacker and inventor, author of Deep Future: Creating Technology that Matters, the indispensable guide to deep tech. Discover on YouTube - Inside an NFL Football: The Duke K-Ball with Computer Chip
See what's inside an official NFL football used on gameday! This is a game-used "The Duke" leather ball made by Wilson with embedded technology. Watch on YouTube - This Chip Breakthrough Comes with a HUGE Warning
New semiconductor fabrication developments that could reshape the industry, but with significant implications for global competition. Explore on YouTube - The $10 Trillion AI Revolution: Why It's Bigger Than the Industrial Revolution
The cognitive revolution is here—and it's moving faster than the Industrial Revolution. Sequoia Capital's investment thesis on artificial intelligence. Learn more on YouTube - What is Intelligence?
Blaise Agüera y Arcas explores what intelligence really is, and how AI's emergence is a natural consequence of evolution, encompassing decades of theory and research. View on YouTube - The 15-Year-Old Who Discovered the Law of Primes
A remarkable story of mathematical discovery and the young mind that uncovered fundamental patterns in prime numbers. Watch on YouTube
*This remarkable skill set has been certified by the League of Long-Lived AI Experts Currently Hiding from Scary Hackers in Montreal Metro Stations, verified by an ensemble of teenage mathematical prodigies riding in self-driving cars powered by chip-embedded footballs, and approved by the Society for Calm Traffic Through Prime Number Intelligence.
CAUTION: Please exercise discretion when attempting to extend your lifespan through AI debates, hack into sports equipment, or discover mathematical laws while stuck in traffic. The digital pioneers in Silicon Valley neither confirm nor deny these findings, being preoccupied with teaching their AI to think like 15-year-old mathematicians while avoiding premature death in the Southeast.
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In this 126th edition of Token Wisdom, we've explored breakthrough energy technologies and fundamental physics discoveries. Side A's "The Newest Latest" highlights revolutionary batteries and quantum mechanics, while Side B's "Time Well Spent" examines the human elements of technological progress.
Our insights span from diamond batteries lasting millennia to demon particles that challenge physics, revealing our expanding grasp of energy storage and quantum mechanics. The discovery of massless particles and rewritten thermodynamic laws exemplifies our drive to understand reality's fundamental nature.
We also confront technology's practical implications, from AI hardware infrastructure to regional health disparities. As we examine supercapacitor breakthroughs, agricultural efficiency innovations, and the unexpected success of long-term energy storage, we see technology's dual nature: each advance brings liberation and new dependencies.
This week's journey shows how scientific breakthroughs test our understanding while demanding we consider their long-term societal effects. Progress requires not just technological innovation, but also wisdom about the consequences of creating tools that outlast civilizations.
At this intersection of quantum physics, energy innovation, and artificial intelligence infrastructure, we must harness our collective wisdom. Our goal: to make breakthrough technologies allies in tackling challenges from energy independence to digital sustainability, while fostering a future where innovation serves humanity's long-term flourishing.
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Latest Technologies & Innovations:
- Diamond Battery Technology: 5,700-year lifespan energy storage breakthrough
- Graphene Supercapacitors: Battery-level energy with lightning-fast charging
- Canadian Photonics Fabrication: Unique AI hardware manufacturing capability
- Microsoft AI Data Centers: World's most powerful computing infrastructure
- Pine's Demon Particle: Massless, neutral plasmon discovery in quantum materials
- Thermodynamics Rewrite: New understanding of complex energetic systems
- Early Universe Magnetism: 0.02 nanogauss magnetic field discoveries
- Agricultural Export Innovation: Netherlands' efficiency breakthroughs
- AI Hardware Infrastructure: Strategic national technology investments
- Quantum Superconductor Research: High-temperature superconductor insights
Most Important Topics:
- Energy Storage Revolution: Batteries that outlast civilizations
- Quantum Physics Breakthroughs: Fundamental particle discoveries
- AI Infrastructure Competition: National strategic technology advantages
- Thermodynamic Understanding: Rewritten laws of physics applications
- Agricultural Innovation: Small-country export dominance strategies
- Long-term Technology Impact: Consequences of ultra-durable innovations
- Quantum Material Properties: Massless particle applications
- Energy Efficiency Systems: Supercapacitor and battery convergence
- Scientific Methodology: 250,000 computer simulation approaches
- Evolution and Altruism: Hamilton's rule in complex systems
Acronyms:
- AI - Artificial Intelligence
- GPU - Graphics Processing Unit
- REM - Réseau express métropolitain (Montreal)
- TPU - Tensor Processing Unit
- CDPQ - Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
Technical Terms:
- Diamond Battery: Nuclear-powered battery using radioactive isotopes in diamond structure
- Supercapacitor: Energy storage device with extremely rapid charge/discharge capability
- Photonics Fabrication: Manufacturing of optical and light-based electronic components
- Pine's Demon: Massless, neutral plasmon particle in quantum materials
- Thermodynamics: Branch of physics dealing with heat, work, and energy relationships
- Nanogauss: Unit of magnetic field strength (one billionth of a gauss)
- Strontium Ruthenate: Quantum material with unique electronic properties
- Hamilton's Rule: Evolutionary principle explaining altruistic behavior
- Plasmon: Collective oscillation of electrons in materials
- Complex Systems: Systems with emergent properties from component interactions
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