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Mathias Sundin 3 min read

๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ 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.

Mathias Sundin 7 min read

โ™ป๏ธ 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.

Mathias Sundin 4 min read

๐ŸŒ… 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.

Mathias Sundin 4 min read

๐Ÿ”‹ 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.

Mathias Sundin 5 min read

๐Ÿงฎ Facit and the peril of not understanding the future

In 1966 Pelรฉ walked the streets of tiny Swedish town ร…tvidaberg, 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?

Mathias Sundin 4 min read

๐Ÿ’ก Optimist's Edge Top 5

Optimist's Edge is the advantage fact-based optimists have, which gives them the superpower to be able to see opportunities before everyone else.

Mathias Sundin 5 min read

๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Gordon Moore foresaw the future - and created it

With Moore's law you can predict what computers can do and help create the future.

Mathias Sundin 3 min read

๐Ÿ“ธ 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.

Marco Borsari 4 min read

๐Ÿ› Mushrooms - the next step in bio-building

It could soon be possible to obtain eco-sustainable buildings which in total are compostable, grow on their own are even able to repair themselves. Learn more about the special component in mushrooms.