Ian Hogarth

When I was a teenager I was entranced by JE Gordon’s seminal book The New Science of Strong Materials.

On a fundamental level, learning to move and manoeuvre at hypersonic speeds unlocks a whole new regime: there are obvious military applications like missiles, drones and jets - but also new civilian uses like significantly faster travel or even passenger…

I’ve been long obsessed by how Europe can define new branches of the tech tree, and in the process build its first trillion dollar company.

Proxima Fusion’s Series A: What does it take for first time founders to raise $150M for fusion within two years of founding?

In December 1959, theoretical physicist Richard Feynman gave a lecture to the American Physical Society in Pasadena, titled Plenty of Room at the Bottom.

[This is the uncut version of my essay published in the Financial Times on November 28 2024.]

As companies continue to train larger and larger AI models, the amount of data that needs to be moved between GPUs is growing extremely rapidly - due to highly synchronous workloads.

I’m very excited to announce that Plural and UVC Partners are going to be co-leading a €7m seed round for Proxima Fusion, the first ever spin out from the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics, creators of the world’s most advanced stellarator.

I’m really happy to announce that Carina Namih has joined Khaled, Sten, Taavet and me at Plural as a peer.

For the 11th year running…here’s what I loved the most in 2022.

For the tenth year running…here’s what I loved the most in 2021.

I stayed up last night reading The Ministry for the Future after recommendations by Albert and Yancey.

For the ninth year running…here’s what I loved the most in 2020.

For the eighth year running…here’s what I loved the most in 2019: Books: Crossing to Safety (Stegner) The Tree of Man (White) A Bend in the River (Naipaul) Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World (Tooze) (my notes) Technological Revolu…

I have just finished Crashed - How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze and can recommend it.

I have a bit of news to share - I’ve been appointed Visiting Professor (!)

For the seventh year running….here’s what I loved the most in 2018: Books: 1.

For the past 9 months I have been presenting versions of this talk to AI researchers, investors, politicians and policy makers.

For the 6th year running I give you some arbitrary rankings of some media products from the last year.

For the 5th year running I give you some arbitrary rankings of some media products from 2016.