Bluesci President

Why do we sleep? How is it that spending a third of our lives unconscious, vulnerable to predators and other threats, has survived the test of evolution? It seems so much more practical to rest while conscious, alert to our surroundings, and ready to react. Yet, despite this apparent disadvantage, sleep is a universal necessity for nearly every living creature. So, what’s really going on during those hours of inactivity?

Imagine the year 2075. As we look back on the 2020s, this decade would stand out as a pivotal moment in the history of science defined by the rise of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). The 2024 Nobel Prize in physics and chemistry and the exploding popularity of large language models are the smoking gun of this milestone.

Say you take the entire railway network of the UK, made up of thousands of miles of tracks, countless train stations, and complex crossings and junctions, just to compress the whole thing into a space similar to that of Trafalgar Square.