LinkedIn articles & posts · December 2025
How did we teach sand to think?
An imaginary dialogue between my current self and my 15-year-old self about the point of physics and maths in the age of AI. The key metaphor: silicon from sand becomes the raw material of thinking chips.
This is an edited summary of my LinkedIn article – the full original text is available on LinkedIn.
An imaginary dialogue between my current self and my 15-year-old high-school self about the point of physics and mathematics in the age of AI.
The key metaphor: silicon extracted from sand, after the right processing, becomes the raw material of the chips that run artificial intelligence – that is how we “taught sand to think”.
Beyond knowledge, developing emotional intelligence is essential so that we do not passively accept the future but consciously shape it.