Physicist, Computer Scientist, Entrepeneur. Founder/CEO interested in causality preserving networks for building resilient decentralized infrastructures. Founder of the ItsAboutTime.club Paul has served: on Apple's Infrastructure team, as VP/CTO for VERITAS Software; VP/Chief Architect for Storage Systems at Quantum Corporation; Distinguished Engineer, Director of Architecture & Performance and Chief Scientist for IR at Sun Microsystems. Paul has a Ph.D in Physics from University College London, and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program. Paul’s lifelong interest in dependable computing came from working with NASA, designing computer systems & software for an experiment which performed extraordinarily well on flight 51F of the Space Shuttle. ————————————————— References Spacetime is Doomed. SLAC: Nima Arkani Hamed: “The end of Spacetime”. There are many other references to Nima’s lectures on the internet describing why “Spacetime is doomed” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-C5RubqtRA Edge: The Abdication of Spacetime. Contains references to the work of Brian Swingle and Mark Van Raamsdonk. https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26563 Nature Communications. “Quantum clocks and the temporal localisability of events” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16013-1.pdf Papers We Love San Francisco: Lamport’s Unfinished Revolution Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&t=32m27s&v=CWF3QnfihL4 Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/pborrill/time-clocks-and-the-reordering-of-events-pwl-san-francisco-14-jul-2016 Insights in the Nature of Time in Physics, and Implications for Computer Science Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfvouFIVCmQ Slides: http://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/140416-Borrill-slides.pdf