The Connected Ideas Project

Divine Blueprint: When the Future Starts Remembering Where It Came From

How the third chapter in the Echoes of Tomorrow series turns the mirror back on creation itself—and what happens when our technologies start reminding…

Nov 11 • 

Alexander Titus

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October 2025

Ep 51 - Teaching Science to Know Itself

The coming age of scientific superintelligence and the technologies that will make it possible

Oct 21 • 

Alexander Titus

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Hubris Rising: When Science Fiction Starts Reading Like a Policy Brief

On the launch of Book 2 in the Echoes of Tomorrow series — and why storytelling belongs in the rooms where we decide the future of technology.

Oct 10 • 

Alexander Titus

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Synthetic Eden: Why We Needed a New Story About the Futures We’re Building

On the launch of Book 1 in the Echoes of Tomorrow series — and why fiction might be our best tool for understanding the technology shaping our lives.

Oct 7 • 

Alexander Titus

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September 2025

Ep 50 - Moral World Building and the Launch of a New Partnership

I brought the science, and Sean brought the fiction. How a novel partnership built Synthetic Eden into a hard science fiction take on modern bioethics…

Sep 9 • 

Alexander Titus

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Ep 49 - Mammoths, Moonshots, and the Messiness of Life

What the discovery of a new mammoth lineage in Mexico teaches us about the shifting paradigms of life

Sep 3 • 

Alexander Titus

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13:29

August 2025

Ep 48 - The Model That Reprograms Cell Identity

How specialized AI models are rewriting the code of cell identity and accelerating regenerative biology

Aug 26 • 

Alexander Titus

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14:12

Ep 47 - Seven Moonshots for the Century of Biology

From decoding life to redesigning society, the moonshots that chart our biological future

Aug 19 • 

Alexander Titus

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15:34

Synthetic Eden ARCs are dropping soon - sign up before they close

You are why I write this newsletter, and I'd like to say thank you with an advanced reader copy of my debut novel. You helped make this a reality, so be…

Aug 15 • 

Alexander Titus

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Ep 46 - Manhattan Genomics and the Kobayashi Maru of Biology

At the frontier of technology, humanity is the experiment. The question now is, who is designing the experiment?

Aug 12 • 

Alexander Titus

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12:29

Synthetic Eden is Coming — ARC Readers Wanted

Join me for an advanced reader copy of Synthetic Eden and be one of the first in the world to read my full debut novel

Aug 8 • 

Alexander Titus

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Ep 45 - At the Frontier of Biology, Language Models Are the Lab Techs

When the lab protocol thinks back and CRISPR meets its AI counterpart

Aug 5 • 

Alexander Titus

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