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☠️ Doomscrolling - How your news feed gives you a negative worldview
Murder, war, and famine. What we doomscroll happens every day on earth. But we must understand that the news is a report of the worst that happens every given day. That is why we must balance our worldview.
✈️ In the future we travel more than ever
Our current means of transport are improving at a rapid pace. But there will also be several new ways of traveling that will make us travel more than ever in the future.
💡 Tips from Warp News: Food out of thin air & maps of progress
Ken Follett's new book, interactive maps that show the world's progress, food out of thin air, why people are so pessimistic about the future - and finally a way to know if the ice cream at McDonald's is broken.
🙄 Are optimists naive? No, but the pessimists are
Contrary to popular belief, it is the pessimists that are naive, not the optimists. Despite tremendous progress for humanity, they think that this progress will suddenly end, without any reason. That is irrational and foolish.
🚘 Autonomous vehicles take a step forward
Within a couple of weeks, three companies have announced important steps in the quest for self-driving cars. Tesla launched a beta test of their autonomous technology. Waymo opens up its driverless taxi service to the public in Phoenix, Arizona. And Cruise is doing the same thing in San Francisco.
Alexandra Kafka Larsson: My vision is a world where decisions are based on data - with respect to everyone's differences
She is a former intelligence officer, who now works as Chief Information Architect at Combitech. AI and VR are the technologies that will do the most good for humanity in the future, she believes.
💡 Tips from Warp News: Musk on Mars & why degrowth won't save our planet
Daniel Yergin's latest book, Wright's Law, first videos of Tesla's Full-Self Driving beta, Musk's latest Mars update, Andrew McAfee on growth and the environment plus you campaign slogan for 2020.
💡 The Optimist's Edge
What important truth do very few people agree with you on? In the answer lies a big opportunity. Because revolutionary ideas and global business ideas are usually not found in what is already mainstream. The fact-based optimist has this advantage because they can easily answer the question.
🍔 From plant burgers that bleed to agricultural drones - this is FoodTech
The technology we use in our food production is becoming increasingly advanced. So advanced that we are now entering a new paradigm. Now, in the 21st century, we have therefore also begun to use a new word to describe this technique.