I’m building tools that find hidden connections across scientific fields — using 9 million patents and 357 million academic papers to surface the cross-domain analogies that nobody is looking for. This is where I write about the work, the ideas, and the data emerging from the frontier.
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Quiet Breakout: The Nuclear Pacemaker Died in 1988. The Patent Office Says It’s Coming Back.
Betavoltaic battery patents are quietly stacking up after a dead decade — and the new entrants are a Florida pacemaker startup, Korea’s atomic institute, and the company that makes a third of the world’s EV batteries.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: The Code Routed Around the Law. The Law Wrote Better Code.
VoIP and Tornado Cash prove Kurzweil right — code can outrun the state. But 2025’s record internet shutdowns and lawful-decryption patents show the institutions learned to route back.
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Quiet Breakout: A NASCAR Engine Builder Is Cracking Ammonia Inside a Chevy V8
Ammonia is the fuel that almost works. A Charlotte spin-out with ten patents and a NASCAR pedigree is cracking it into hydrogen on a moving engine, using waste heat nobody else is chasing.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: The Meat Grew. The Market Starved.
We learned to grow chicken without the chicken — exactly as Kurzweil predicted. Then seven states banned it and the funding collapsed 90%.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: The Weapons Got Precise. The Casualties Got Worse.
Kurzweil predicted intelligent weapons would make war precise and less deadly. Cheap autonomous drones made it precise and far deadlier — and the nanobots never showed.
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Convergence Watch: Toyota and a Defense Think Tank Are Building Batteries That Weigh Nothing
US patents for carbon-fiber ‘massless’ batteries tripled since 2022. The two deepest American portfolios belong to a carmaker and a Pentagon think tank, not a battery company.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: He Trusted the Market to Steer. The World Reached for Export Controls.
Kurzweil’s energy predictions are aging well. His bet that open markets, not governments, would safely steer AI is the one cracking.
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Quiet Breakout: Mushroom Leather’s Startups Are Dead. The Patents Just Hit a Record.
Bolt Threads killed Mylo and MycoWorks went bankrupt, yet US mycelium patents hit an all-time high in 2025. The reason: Hermès and Nike are quietly filing their own.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: The Merger Came Through a Chat Window, Not the Skull
Kurzweil bet the human-AI merger would run through electrodes and nanobots. It arrived through a chat window instead — and the real brain implants are doing something else entirely.