💡 Innovation
🏙️ Tech leaders building a new city near Silicon Valley
Eastern Solano County, close to Silicon Valley, identified for the ambitious project. Support from tech moguls like Marc Andreessen and Reid Hoffman. See illustrations of the city.
👩⚕️ If we are to move from sick care to healthcare, someone needs to lead the way
Is Neko Health the battering ram needed to truly transform sick care into actual healthcare? I've visited them, looked around, and talked to one of the founders, Hjalmar Nilsonne.
👩💻 IBM's quantum breakthrough - real-world applications within two years
IBM's quantum computer successfully completes a 'benchmark' experiment. Researchers work around quantum noise to get reliable results. The achievement suggests quantum computers could have practical applications within two years.
🔎 A doctor on a mission to improve the lives of millions of people (and John Grisham is helping him)
Dr. Neal Kassell is a famous neurosurgeon, and has operated on President Joe Biden. But now he has dedicated his life to spreading a medical innovation that could help millions of patients.
💡 Optimist's Edge: Prize competitions accelerate innovation
💡 Prize competitions accelerate innovation by both crowdsourcing ideas and financing.
📚 Kevin Kelly: Focus on the biggest opportunities, not the biggest problems
We talk about some of the 450 advice in his new book, but also about his new project: Protopia - the hundred-year desirable future. And Kevin Kelly give advice for how Warp News should grow faster: "Wrap it around people and their dreams."
🦾 AI-driven lab search for new materials 24/7
An automated system operates continuously, day and night, to produce novel inorganic materials with the potential to enhance batteries, fuel cells, and superconductors.
👩💻 Job: Help Speculative Technologies design new research programs
Help design a research program to unlock powerful materials or manufacturing technology.
🔥 XPRIZE Wildfire: Igniting a global race to reinvent wildfire detection and response
Humanity's grand challenge of eliminating wildfires is tackled head-on by the $11 million XPRIZE Wildfire competition.