Here is a look in the mirror of what weβve done right, and wrong. The good, the bad and the ugly. And what we intend to change.
Warp News was invited to talk about optimistic news for the newsroom at Expressen.
Our brains are on high alert when it comes to perceived danger. That was great thousands of years ago, but today the world is much less dangerous, and now our instinct makes us pessimistic.
π‘ Self-driving cars will look different and be much cheaper to travel, meaning a freedom revolution for people with disabilities.
Good journalism is one of the most important things we have in society. But news media is unbalanced and report much more negative news than positive, which gives us a distorted and pessimistic view of the world.
Few humans can drive at 200 miles per hour, like an F1 driver, and it is very dangerous to do so. But that would be easy peasy for an autonomous vehicle.
A majority of people in the richest countries are pessimistic about the future. One reason is that they know less about humanity's progress than chimpanzees.
π‘ Self-driving cars will be many times safer than human-driven cars and save millions of lives and stop even more people from getting hurt.
π‘ In 20 years humans will not be allowed to drive cars on regular roads, because computers by then will drive so much better. This will bring massive change, and lots of new opportunities. The time to start thinking about this is NOW.