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🧠 Real-time brain tumor diagnosis during surgery. 🚰 MIT: Desalination freshwater cheaper than tap water. 🌌 Scientists make key discovery about antimatter. 🐔 CRISPR-engineered chickens resistant to flu.
💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: Dumb money
How 'dumb money' became 'smart money', what you should do to knock down a wall, and what to do if you're inside that wall.
💡 Read The Techno-Optimists Manifesto
We are becoming a serious counterforce. A counterforce against slowing down, stopping, pausing progress and instead accelerating it. A progress movement.
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🐯 40% more snow leopards. 💉 New malaria vaccine. 🦾 US and Sweden are among top AI beneficiaries. 🚰 Desalination of salt water is getting cheaper.
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🦏 Rhinos on the rise. 🌡️ Staying within 1.5 degrees is possible, due to record growth for renewables. 🦾 ChatGPT diagnoses as accurately as ER doctors. 🔌 Record global access to electricity.
💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: No AI pause, but the doomsday rhetoric has taken hold
Doomsday rhetoric has taken hold at the highest level, and risks damaging the future of humanity.
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🐦 Europe’s most endangered bird is making a comeback. 🧬 New AI predicts genetic diseases. 📲 Google launches new anti-censorship tech. Mars Technology Institute will develop technologies for human settlement.
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💀 The murder rate has dropped 17%. 👽 Not alone anymore? 📶 Record number of internet users. 🚘 Autonomous vehicles cause fewer injuries and fatal crashes
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🥛 Milk production without cows. 🐳 AI could help us talk to animals. 📱 Internet use may lower dementia risk for older people. 🏙️ Tech leaders building a new city near Silicon Valley.