🌠 Starshot could spread life to other star systems
Project Starshot aims to send tiny spacecraft to our closest star system, Alpha Centauri at a speed of 20% of light speed. This opens the possibility of also sending life into space.
🎈 Google's giant hot air balloons are creating internet connections in Kenya
Via 35 solar-powered hot air balloons, the Google company Loon now offers 4G internet connection to millions of Kenyans.
🏎️ Self-driving cars shapes up to be a three-way race
Is the self-driving race shaping up like the smartphone race, with two or three dominating software systems and many hardware makers? It sure looks like it.
🥇 Peak and the extraordinary potential of human beings
There no such thing a "10,000 Hour Rule" to become a world-class expert. But with deliberate practice (for many hours) everyone has the potential to become an expert. Professor K Anders Ericsson has shown us the enormous talent and potential in every human being.
☕💻 Welcome to join the Warp Digital fika
Warp's community consists of more than 35,000 people from over 140 countries. We want to get to know you - and help you get to know each other!
🏗️ Steel production emits four times more than aviation - now comes fossil-free production
Swedish companies SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall are together building a plant with the goal of being the first in the world with fossil-free steel as early as 2026. Sweden could reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by 10%.
🚀 Going to space will cost only $2,000
Traveling to space today costs tens of millions of dollar, but within a couple of decades it can be as cheap as $2,000.
👴🏻 This is how I will live to be 122 years old - at least
I'm going to try to live to the age of 122. Then I think and hope that we have achieved a breakthrough that will allow life to be extended even further. It's not science fiction, the breakthrough is close, says David Sinclair, professor of genetics at Harvard.
📚 Fact-based optimistic summer reading
There will be more time for reading this summer, now that there are no long holidays abroad. Here are a bunch of tips for filling your reading list with fact-based optimistic books.