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💡 Optimist's Edge: When everything becomes a service
Music, books, and movies are just the beginning. Much of the stuff we used to own now turns into a service. In this development lies huge opportunities and great business ideas for the planet and people. Let's dig in!
💬 When things go South – it is time to celebrate
For every successful solution, there are a thousand unsuccessful. Laws, bad luck, clumsiness, or pure idiocy made them fail. But we should also celebrate the bad ideas, writes Magnus Aschan.
💡 Optimist's Edge: Tech your empathy to the next level
Many people, wrongly, see technology as being opposed to closeness, compassion, and empathy. Knowing how technology truly can affect our empathy gives you an edge. Ready to get it?
💬 Things were better before – weren’t they?
With nearly eight billion people on the planet, there are always people whose current situation is not good, and they may well have had it better in the past. But on a macro level, there is no question about it – we have never had it better, writes Kelly Odell.
💡 Optimist's Edge: Find your flow and become more productive
Do you suffer from time anxiety? Then you probably don't have too little time, but use the time you've got in the wrong way. There are ways to change that – we show you how to find your flow and become more productive.
💬 Now is the time to reap the benefits of digitalization
The pandemic isn't all bad. In terms of work, we now see many benefits with becoming increasingly digitalized: more productive, less sick, and more equal. Let's not let this slip away by bringing back the old normal, writes Anna Rennéus Guthrie.
🌎 The near-death experience of the multiverse
The fine-tuning irritates the prosaic. But still, it can be found everywhere in physics. Do you know about the fine-tuning that enabled the creation of the multiverse?
💡 Optimist's Edge: When cash no longer is king – this is what you need to know about cashless societies
Societies are going cashless, and there are a lot of benefits to this development. The cashless society is most likely not defined by opportunistic hacking crimes but by smoother payments, and a more connected world.
💡 Optimist's Edge: Can you tell the difference between AI and human writing?
49 percent think they could tell the difference between a text written by a computer and a human, according to our survey. Do you think you could?