One important technology at a time, explained from the physics up, in Georgian and English. Every figure has a source.
12 November 2026 · 7 min read
Almost every private connection on the internet rests on arithmetic that is easy in one direction and hard in the other — and a quantum computer would make the hard direction easy, which is why NIST has now set a date after which the mathematics behind today's locks may no longer be used.
29 October 2026 · 7 min read
A data centre takes electricity off the grid and returns the same amount as heat, so the hard engineering is not computing but power delivery and plumbing — and the racks the AI industry is now building draw up to a megawatt each, which is where the water, the copper and the arguments about the grid come from.
15 October 2026 · 7 min read · with video
A chatbot does one thing: it cuts text into tokens and guesses the next one, over and over, and each guess costs electricity — which is why Georgian costs more per sentence than English, why answers are priced five times higher than questions, and why the model sometimes guesses a fact rather than say it doesn't know.
30 September 2026 · 7 min read · with video
The most advanced chips in the world are printed by one Dutch company's machines, which turn 50,000 tin droplets a second into plasma with a laser, steer the light through a vacuum with mirrors, and draw lines on silicon smaller than a virus.