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.

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.

Peter Thiel argued it’s impossible to innovate in a culture built on copying. Yet China, by mastering one-to-infinity, is out-engineering the Western world.All that already works can and should be scaled up. Emergent properties are the fascinating thing with scale. Probably because most people stop at 80%, the remaining 20, which often is where massive unlock sits, is left to compounding outsiders bold enough to go all the way.Cursor and Windsurf are good examples of this. They're forks of open-source VS Code iterating on great user experience and a merging of emerging systems, and now are worth billions of dollars in valuation.Scaling open source, we believe, is a strong vertical to attempt. It's measurable. Perfect base to grow a tribe. And scales predictably.Moore's law for all that works is the core idea.The future is forward deployment at scale.Fork it.For reference: Fork — the act of taking an existing open-source project or system and creating a new, independent version of it that evolves in a different direction; often toward use cases the original creators didn’t anticipate or weren’t willing to pursue.Forward deployment — the strategy of pushing new technology or innovation directly into real-world environments early, often before it's fully polished, to maximize learning, adoption, and impact.