Thomas Jestin

Hi, my name is Thomas Jestin, I'm a technophile and entrepreneur based out of Singapore, co-founder & CEO of KRDS.

I'm the editor of Parlons Futur (in French) and Future Weekly (in English), 2 newsletters where I share a personal selection of news about some of the most exciting (and sometimes scary) developments in technology 🤖 summarized as bullet points to help you save time and anticipate the future 🔮.

I'm also coproducing CommitStrip, The blog relating the daily life of web agency developers. We've published 2 books of our best strips already.

I also write op-eds at times. Here are my latest articles (many more in French here) :

• Interview of Thomas Jestin, CEO of KRDS, by Foreign Lawyer Renée Kaddouch (May 2020)
• Exclusive Q&A with Nicolas Colin, co-founder of The Family and author of Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age (2019)
• Not an article but an appearance in the Foreign Influence podcast : A conversation with entrepreneur and writer Thomas Jestin on inequality, alternatives to GDP, and how tech is providing and will provide for a better world (starting at 11min55sec) (Dec 2019)
• Meet the Von Braun Station : the most advanced rotating space hotel design to date (renamed since then the Voyager Station) (Oct 2019)
• How Tesla could become the world’s largest carmaker within 10 years  (June 2019)
• Japanese version on evsmart.net
• Disappointed with Game of Thrones'​ last season ? AI should one day be able to generate an infinity of alternate endings (May 2019, updated version from Oct 2017)
• Autonomous Weapons Debate: A list of all the arguments for and against (Jan 2019)
• Why Titan is the best place for Humans in the Solar System beyond Earth (SpaceTechAsia, Aug 2018)
• Here is why The Economist is wrong in this article about Mars (March 2018)
• How to better measure changes in standard of living in a world accelerated by AI and technological progress ? (June 2018)
• This article was a contribution to the work of the Live With AI think tank I'm a board member of, and was also published in Les Echos, the French leading financial news organization
• Why we shouldn’t send humans to Mars (SpaceTechAsia, Feb 2018)
• Why Steven Pinker is wrong when he's sure that "The robot uprising is a myth" (Feb 2018)
• Question to Max Tegmark about an objection to the very possibility of Human-level Artificial Intelligence (Oct 2017)
• Why even the new version of Elon Musk's Big F* Rocket is suboptimal for Mars colonization, and why we shouldn't send humans to Mars anyway (Oct 2017)
• Before 20 years, AI will be able to generate an episode of Game of Thrones instantly (Sep 2017)
• The 3 killer features that are missing on Youtube (Apr 2017)
• Real estate could get demonetized by 2050 due to technological progress (Feb 2017)
• Waiting for the Singularity (preface to the book compiling the best strips from Commitstrip.com (which I co-produce) (Oct 2016)
• Here is why Elon Musk is probably wrong about us living in a computer simulation (as are those who believe in strong AI and mind-uploading) (June 2016)
• Resurrecting the Dead—Bringing Back the Dearly Departed Digitally (SingularityHub.com, Nov 2015)
• When Democracy Falls From The Sky Thanks To Google And Facebook (April 2014)
• 20 years from now, when people no longer drive cars (June 2013)
• A cheap but jobless world filled wih robots (May 2012)
• « Smoot-Hawley did not cause, or even significantly deepen, the Great Depression » (April 2012)
• The 2 arguments against the motion « Does the 21st century belong to China » that F. Zakaria and H. Kissinger missed (April 2012)

And as a space enthusiast, I'm a guest writer for SpaceTechAsia as well as the editor of the website and newsletter www.humans-to-titan.org whose mission is to raise awareness about Titan as the best destination (at some point) for humans in our Solar System beyond Earth.