🧐 Launching a new series: Too bad to be true
One reason for the large predominance of negative news is that journalists often only investigate from one perspective: Too good to be true. Therefore, Warp News is launching a series of articles from the other perspective: Too bad to be true.
✈️ Behind the scenes at the electric airline startup Heart Aerospace
Warp Premium Supporters visited the hangar at the electric airline-company Heart Aerospace, and were told how they chose the boring path to success.
🗳️ The Age of Communities
Central institutions such as governments dominate the world, because they have solved two problems: Lack of information and the difficulty for many to people to vote all the time. Thanks to the internet, these problems are solved, and we can give more power directly to people.
♻️ The teenager who's changing the world and the most important debate of our time
What should we do to solve the problem of climate change? Should we set clear boundaries and push humanity back within them? Or should we evolve so that we can break these boundaries, but without destroying the earth? That is the most important debate of our time.
📚 Fact-based optimistic summer reading
Four books that will make your summer more interesting and more optimistic.
💡 Optimist’s Edge: Will the Tesla Bot replace all physical human labor?
Robots that understand and can interact with the surrounding environment will be able to replace all physical human labor, which will lead to a dramatic expansion of the world economy.
🗳️ Strong connection between democracy and prosperity
People living in democracies are richer, healthier and happier. And there is a strong connection between democracy and prosperity, a new report from The Atlantic Council and the Alliance of Democracies shows.
🌅 Obama should feel more hope
Citizens in free countries are richer, happier and healthier than citizens in unfree countries. Barack Obama should use his world-class rhetorical skills to boost confidence in democracy and create hope for its future. Because, as he used to say: There is nothing false about hope.
📱 These people are using technology to strengthen democracy
Eight democracy activists from Ukraine, Venezuela and Georgia presented their web tools to organize democracy movements, expose corruption, bring transparency to elections and help investigative journalism.