I’m aiming at building the technology to give people command over their own attention, the scarce faculty in an age of abundant machine intelligence.
I’m an engineer and have been a systems researcher by training and have worked with CSIRO – Australia and Argonne National Lab – USA, with peer-reviewed research on the life cycle analysis of electrolytic hydrogen production and on dynamic modeling of the U.S. semiconductor supply chain. Modeling constrained systems taught me one lesson: when an input becomes abundant, the bottleneck moves. I’m now working on where it moved in human cognition.
My essay The Oldest Problem That Was Never Solved makes the argument: as intelligence becomes abundant and nearly free, the one thing that separates those who wield it from those who merely stand beside it is command, the power to choose what your mind works on and carry it through to something finished.
That argument became Scope: a wearable instrument for the attention of humans. It detects the moment the mind leaves the work it chose, restores it below the threshold of notice, and proves the restoration worked with a control arm running inside the device. The design is filed with the USPTO, and the full investor presentation is public.