I'm James Sackl, a founder based in Melbourne, Australia, and a father.

I run two companies. Wallace Biotechnologies is building automated laboratory hardware to make biological measurement cheap enough to repeat, because the chemistry in a blood test costs about sixty cents and the paperwork around it costs closer to thirty-eight dollars. Terraform Technologies builds containerised factories that turn local rock, air and sunlight into construction materials, so the hundred and thirty-odd countries currently importing steel and cement can make their own.

Different industries, same argument. In both, the science was solved decades ago. What stops the technology reaching people is cost, manufacturing and distribution, and almost nobody is working on that end of the problem.

I write about it at jamessackl.com.au.