✍🏼 Essays
Every week you get a thought-provoking essay on how you can understand and create the future.
💡 Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism
Kevin Kelly is the founder of Wired Magazine and author of several books, among them The Inevitable. For Warp News he presents his case for optimism.
✌️ Optimism and the Prisoner's Dilemma
Is there a formula to rely on in human interaction? It seems like there is, and you have probably already guessed it... It is an optimistic one!
🚕"That's a shame! I was planning to get hens"
It is a cliché but still true. It's hard to believe in success if there are no such stories in your own history. In your own family. I often think of Åke's, almost impossible, journey.
💬The new space race is the best thing that could happen to the earth
The new space race led by companies such as SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin, along with the voyage to Mars, is our salvation. Warp News editor-in-chief Magnus Aschan explains why.
👍 The extreme optimist
Nicklas Berlind Lundblad met Stanford Professor John McCarthy in the early 200s and it was the sort of meeting you don't forget.
🌳 The optimistic future is a tree
If you thought that the successful moon landing in the '60s was due to luck and high ambitions, you are wrong. Nicklas Berild Lundblad writes about how optimism should be based on an analysis of what growing human abilities can achieve.
⛪ Martin Luther – The First Twitterer
In just four years Martin Luther went from a complete unknown, to the bestselling author in Europe. A couple of years later he had become such a threat to the church that they banned him. How was this possible before radio, tv and the internet? He used a breakthrough technology, in a new way.
🔧 Nobel Prize winner Gustaf Dalén – the eternal optimist
Gustaf Dalén was the Nobel laureate who experimented and developed a new cooker in his own kitchen. The new cooker revolutionized household work. He was not only a genius engineer, he was also an optimist!
🙏The benefits of gratitude
Being grateful does good for your health and well-being, but what does it mean really? And how can you start to practice it?