Thomas Jestin

Hi, my name is Thomas Jestin, I'm a technophile and entrepreneur based out of Singapore, co-founder & CEO of KRDS, a digital marketing agency with offices also in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Dubai and India. Am also the cofounder of Yelda.ai., voice AI for customer care

I'm the editor of Future Weekly and Parlons Futur (in French), 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 and record thoughts/conversations. Here are my latest articles and podcasts (many more in French here) :

• My conversation on the Abundance Makers podcast with Casey Handmer, the founder of Terraform Industries. (youtube, spotify, apple) (October 2023)
• Two years ago, Casey Handmer quit working on GPS science at NASA JPL to start Terraform Industries, a wild idea backed by visionary investors (including Stripe co-founder and CEO Patrick Collison)
• His plan? To make the world's cheapest green hydrogen, the world's cheapest direct air capture CO2, and cheap carbon neutral natural gas at scale. 
• Green, On-Demand, Abundant Energy by 2050 is Definitely Possible: Here's the Plan (Oct 2023)
• 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 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 (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.