✍🏼 Essays
Every week you get a thought-provoking essay on how you can understand and create the future.
🗳️ 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.
🧠 In just 20 years artificial intelligence could dramatically reshape our world
The imagination of Kai-Fu Lee, former president of Google China, takes us into a futuristic world made up of virtual teachers, augmented cities, increased longevity, immersive virtual worlds, as well as vital new issues to address.
🌅 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.
🔋 Northvolt and the benefit of understanding the future
The story of Peter Carlsson and Northvolt teaches us two lessons: You need to understand the future to see all the possibilities, and you must be a fact-based optimist to grab them.
🧮 Facit and the peril of not understanding the future
In 1966 Pelé walked the streets of tiny Swedish town Åtvidaberg, as part of a global marketing campaign for the local multinational company Facit. But just six years later Facit was no more, swept away by a disruption in the market: electronic pocket calculators. How could they have missed this?
🖥️ Gordon Moore foresaw the future - and created it
With Moore's law you can predict what computers can do and help create the future.
📸 6D explains what happens to a product that is digitized
A physical product that becomes digital end up so cheap and accessible in its final stages that it becomes democratized.
☀️ Are we about to cure cancer?
Less than a hundred years ago, cancer could not be treated. Many died without even understanding the seriousness of their diagnosis. A lot has happened since then. Are we even on the verge of curing cancer, asks Magnus Aschan.