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💡 The Case for Fact-based Optimism
"You can not use the media if you want to understand the world," said Hans Rosling. We hope to challenge that statement by giving you a more balanced, fact-based, and optimistic view of the world and the future.
💡 Meet the Warp News Experts that help you understand the future
One astronaut, one neuroscientist and medical doctor, one food tech expert, one future astronaut, one sustainability entrepreneur and one former professor of innovation - that will help you understand the future and get the optimist's edge.
🤑 Owning an electric vehicle is less expensive compared to a gas car
You can save thousands of dollars by owning an electric vehicle than a gas car, even if the purchase price for buying the electric vehicle is higher, according to two new reports.
🔋 Tesla’s Battery Day spells the end of the ICE age
If we connect the dots from Tesla's announcements on Battery Day we see the revolution in plain sight. The era of the internal combustion engine is over. By 2030 electric vehicles will be much cheaper both to buy and own, and very few ICE cars will be sold.
🛫 Air travel will also go electric
"It's impossible!" the pessimists say about electric airplanes. Anders Forslund and Klara Andreasson seem not to have heard them. Because in a hangar outside of Gothenburg, they are building a commercial 19 passenger electric airplane.
🌏 China will not dominate the world unless it becomes a democracy
How can democratic countries compete with a China that just commands forward innovation? But real breakthrough innovation can not be created in a closed system. A democratic China would be great for the Chinese - and for human progress and innovation.
⤴️ The Warp Effect curves humanity's progress
Innovation = ideas + technology. The more ideas and the easier they spread the better technology. The better technology the easier it is to spread ideas. They drive each other and the curve of humanity warps.
🧠 Neuralink is the next natural step for humanity
All through human history, we have used technology to evolve. The next step is to connect our brains directly to computers, which will help humanity take a giant leap forward.
👩💻 The internet's third era
The internet's first era was open platforms. In the second era huge, more closed, companies were built on top of those platforms. Now when we enter the third era, we can again create a more open internet.