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🌦️ Weather forecasts much more accurate. 🥛 Genetically modified cows can produce milk containing insulin. 📉 New study: Poverty has decreased more than we thought, as has inequality – including within countries. 🐖 Genetically modified pig kidney transplanted into human for the first time.
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🔋 Another revolution?
Jonas Birgersson made history when he, in 1999, signed a deal with HSB to offer broadband to their 350,000 apartments. That was the starting point for the Swedish broadband expansion, which became the fastest in the world.
Now, he has done it again. A couple of weeks ago, his ViaEuropa signed a deal with Sweden's Public Utility. A concept for the energy society is to be developed and offered to the over 300 property owners who are part of the public housing sector. Together, they have 20 percent of Swedish apartments.
In 1999, he and the deal received enormous attention. Now, the energy society is largely flying under the radar. The energy debate is buried in trenches between different types of energy production.
That's why I'm glad to be able to tell the story to you here.
It begins, for me, in the summer of 2022, when I drove to Lund for a long talk with Jonas. We talked about what had happened in the 90s, but also about the future. It was then he mentioned it, the energy society.
If successful here in Sweden, the energy society will expand to many parts of the world.
🔋 Towards the energy society – part 1
Warp Institute is part of the Project Energy Society, and I've seen it develop rapidly over the past almost two years.
(As all really smart people are, Jonas is, just like you, a Warp Premium Supporter.)
Mathias Sundin
The Angry Optimist
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🔋 Towards the Energy Society - part 1
Jonas Birgersson made it into the history books as Sweden's foremost champion of the internet revolution. Now, he's using everything he learned then to do it again. This time it's an energy revolution.
💡 Fact-based optimistic news of the week
💰 They make climate investments for companies – raise $50 million
Swedish Rison Capital has entered into a partnership with SEB Nordic Energy, which is investing $50 million in climate-promoting projects. The business model is based on Rison making the investments for the companies, such as switching to LED lighting, and the companies pay a fixed fee to Rison.
📉 New study: Poverty has decreased more than we thought, as has inequality – including within countries
Extreme poverty is almost 40 percent lower than previously thought, and economic inequality is decreasing both between and within countries.
🌦️ Weather forecasts have become much more accurate
Four-day forecasts now have the same accuracy as one-day forecasts did 30 years ago.
🥛 Genetically modified cows can produce milk containing insulin
Genetically modified cows have produced milk containing human insulin. The method can be scaled up to ensure availability and lower the cost of insulin for diabetics.
🐖 Genetically modified pig kidney transplanted into human for the first time
For the first time, surgeons have transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig into a living person. This type of kidney could help reduce the shortage of organs.
🦾 One year since the AI pause: Excerpt from The Centaur's Edge in Quillette
Exactly one year ago, Max Tegmark and several others suggested a pause in AI development. In a talk, Tegmark announced that humanity is toast anyway. AI will obliterate us. Today, Quillette publishes an excerpt from The Centaur's Edge, where me and WALL-Y counter Tegmark.
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