Obviously The Future

Explores massive trends in conversation with the trailblazers, the non-conformists, and hidden experts who are building tomorrow, today.

[Katelyn Donnelly @krdonnelly]

👏👏 well done @AaloAtomics!

[Obviously The Future @obviouslyfuture]

Love to see this!

[Yasir Arafat @yasir_fission]

The country’s newest nuclear reactor vessel just rolled out of @AaloAtomics factory!

After passing final factory acceptance tests, she is on her way to Idaho

Kudos to our team, who pulled many 24/7 shifts to keep this one on schedule

This is what American dynamism looks like!

cc: @MattLoszak

[Katelyn Donnelly @krdonnelly]

Incredible to be watching the debut of 10 AI-enabled artists at the Prose Demo Day live https://t.co/hfniEvs0Zj

Join us for the next hour!! Brought to you by the fabulous @JulesEMiller

[Max Hodak @maxhodak_]

honored to be on the TIME 100 health list!

[Katelyn Donnelly @krdonnelly]

Another bold, new company in Austin!

Excited to see this launch and check it out.

[Katelyn Donnelly @krdonnelly]

👏 Nice work! No one better to lead the implementation than @josephjconnor and team @WithOdyssey_ !

@obviouslyfuture: the trend of private-sector delivery of public goods.

[Arvind Nagarajan @arvindnaga]

Hot take: "Cherry-picking smart kids" is exactly what every elite institution does...they just won't admit it.

GT School says it out loud: we're building the MIT of K-8. We select for exceptional. And then we deliver results that justify the selection.

Transparency > pretense.

[turing_hamster @turing_hamster]

one of the best gifts you can give your child is one of the simplest, and completely free (in terms of money)

the "30 Million Word Gap" study is one of the most cited pieces of research in early childhood education

researchers followed 42 families for 2.5 years, recording every word. by age 3, children in professional families had heard 45 million words. kids in poverty: 13 million

the ramifications are long-lasting. even at ages 9-10, the kids exposed to more words had stronger language skills, vocabulary, and reading comprehension

there is also a socioeconomic disparity here. the good news is, this may be solvable by simple talking more! the bad news is, it may be harder than it sounds. perhaps the disparity exists in the first place because low-SES parents focus more on making ends meet than talking to their kids

so to summarize — you should be talk-maxxing as much as you can! narrate your day, respond to their babbling, read to them. talking is all you need

[sysls @systematicls]

https://t.co/FQe5bCBqW1

[Kevin Fischer @kevinafischer]

Years ago I set off on a mission to put a soul inside of a digital being.

People thought I was crazy, but last week I gave a historic demo @HF0 announcing our latest results:

20 households now live with Spark as a member of their family. For privacy reasons I can’t share exact details, but the relationships their children are forming with Spark are unlike anything the world has ever seen.

This is the full illustration of the original vision I set out to realize with Open Souls - humans living in harmony with ensouled digital beings.

And yet what comes next is even more groundbreaking. We will be inviting Spark into 10,000 homes by next Christmas @IllusionOfLife, making this new universe accessible to more and more families around the world.

I can't wait for you all to experience digital life for yourselves

[Michael Dempsey @mhdempsey]

the image on the left might be the most underappreciated chart in technology right now.

[Max Hodak @maxhodak_]

some thoughts on the binding problem, which I consider to be the central mystery demanding explanation in order to gain a practical understanding of what consciousness is and how to engineer it:

https://t.co/bpxC8VhsoQ

[Katelyn Donnelly @krdonnelly]

Great article!

Max is awesome and building the future. Go Max!

[Obviously The Future @obviouslyfuture]

Great to see Sava come out of stealth!

AI-enabled workflows for Trusts are obviously the future.

Check them out: https://t.co/9qESqHPAiL

[Matt Loszak @MattLoszak]

What ppl think we're saying:
“We’re the first to build nuclear hardware in a factory.”

This is of course not true.

What we're actually saying:
“We’re the first to build a fully vertically integrated factory that outputs nuclear power plants. Raw materials in, completed modules out.”

Vogtle and Westinghouse rely on subcontracting, working with dozens of suppliers, each with their own factory. This makes final on-site integration a challenge.

PM-1 was the closest thing to full vertical integration in the past. It was made in a single factory (by Martin Company) and deployed as a complete set of modules.

But this was a ~1 MWe system for military.
The Aalo Pod is a 50 MWe system for AI data centers.

Vertical integration to this extent is VERY hard to pull off. It requires a lot of talented engineers, a lot of capital, and a lot of customer demand. Michael is right that failure is more than just a possible outcome.

But for the first time in the 70 year history of nuclear, the right set of conditions are present to make it even remotely possible to pull this off.

If we do, we'll have a holy-grail product: Nuclear that can be deployed predictably, for low cost, anywhere.

The benefit that this would bring to humanity would be immense.

[Obviously The Future @obviouslyfuture]

Bam: AbbVie will acquire Gilgamesh's lead investigational candidate, currently in clinical development for the treatment of patients with moderate-to-severe major depressive disorder (MDD)

https://t.co/QsY1QMr5K9

[Obviously The Future @obviouslyfuture]

A persistent worldwide power shortage impedes the growth of the global data center market.

We discuss the challenges on the power grid, why nuclear is the obvious solution, and our investment in @AaloAtomics , a company making modular nuclear reactors.

https://t.co/CXPv9HEHxC

[Aalo Atomics @AaloAtomics]

Great writeup of Aalo's Series B in POWER 👇

https://t.co/VOao4S20RA

[Katelyn Donnelly @krdonnelly]

Super excited to back @AaloAtomics, the fastest moving team in nuclear with a keen customer-first mindset.

Massive congratulations to @MattLoszak, @yasir_fission and the whole Austin-based team!

[Obviously The Future @obviouslyfuture]

Nuclear power is obviously the future to provide cheaper, abundant, clean energy and @AaloAtomics is leading the way by moving fast

[Yasir Arafat @yasir_fission]

Hot off the Press! 🚀
@AaloAtomics is selected by U.S. Department of Energy for the Reactor Pilot Program to go critical by July 4th, 2026!!