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  April 4, 20251 minute

  Concerning Abundance, AGI, and our Collective Future.

  A future of abundance (courtesy of the progress in AI and quantum computing) seems to me, to be inevitable. Whether or not this abundance is uniformly distributed, though, is an entirely different conversation. & I suspect the earlier we start thinking about and around this, the better.Democracy thrives in an up-and-to-the-right socio-economic system. & techno-optimism, obviously— or within reasonable variance— is the only good solution to most third-world problems.We, individually, will get intelligence too cheap to meter. But much more interesting and worthy of execution, directionally, is what becomes possible with an agi-multiplier to create and get world-class healthcare and education at the push of a button. & all this at almost zero cost.Attempting distributed universal basic compute in Africa, seems to me to be a good contrarian bet to make. With luck made available & direction of execution suggestible by context-soaked quantum agi-systems. Success can then be fought for through sheer ability and willpower.One could theorize then, on such a bet, that turtles who are learning machines would one day run neck-to-neck with hares. And that that, perhaps, will be the world as it should be. Most other assertions— as I see it— are a sorry kind of freedom.

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  May 5, 20252 minutes

  From Ghana to CERN — and Back Again to Teach the World

  When Prince Gidisu boarded his first international flight from Ghana to Switzerland in the summer of 2024, he was chasing a dream most young African physicists never dare to believe: working at the world’s most advanced research facility — CERN.He had just completed his undergraduate degree in Physics at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. Eight weeks later, he left Switzerland not just as a student of particle physics, but as a transformed mind — a catalyst.Today, less than a year later, he’s returning to Switzerland — this time, not as a learner, but as a teacher.In June 2025, he will present his work on energy transition pedagogy at an international conference hosted at the very institution that shaped his leap: CERN. His talk, titled “Energy Transition: A Teaching Guide”, distills complex global energy debates into accessible lessons for students across the world — the same kind of access he once longed for.This moment is bigger than a presentation. It marks a shift in narrative: from African students being passive recipients of knowledge to becoming global contributors and thought leaders.At Idalia Africa, we exist for stories like this. We embed Africa’s brightest into the world’s most advanced labs — not just so they can see the future, but so they can shape it.Prince's journey is proof that when access meets ambition, boundaries could potentially collapse. And Africa just might rise.It's still day one.