💡 Optimist’s Edge: No language barrier
Humanity has been working on machine translation for hundreds of years, but in the last ten years, progress has been exponential. We are close to a world with perfect machine translations of texts, removing a big language barrier for the world.
🔋 Northvolt and the benefit of understanding the future
The story of Peter Carlsson and Northvolt teaches us two lessons: You need to understand the future to see all the possibilities, and you must be a fact-based optimist to grab them.
Warp Impact: 😟 The headset that treats depression with brain stimulation
Brain stimulation can be used against depression, but also to improve the brain's ability. "It is a very exciting field," says Erik Rehn, co-founder of Flow Neuroscience.
🧮 Facit and the peril of not understanding the future
In 1966 Pelé walked the streets of tiny Swedish town Åtvidaberg, as part of a global marketing campaign for the local multinational company Facit. But just six years later Facit was no more, swept away by a disruption in the market: electronic pocket calculators. How could they have missed this?
🌱 Tasting the future
Vertical farming is really smart. Grow vegetables year-round with a very low environmental impact. Warp Premium Supporters have visited vertical farming company Ecobloom, to taste the future – literally.
💡 Optimist's Edge Top 5
Optimist's Edge is the advantage fact-based optimists have, which gives them the superpower to be able to see opportunities before everyone else.
🖥️ Gordon Moore foresaw the future - and created it
With Moore's law you can predict what computers can do and help create the future.
👩🎓 Pilot project aims to instill optimism in young people
Young people are feeling more and more hopeless about the future. But the good news is that something can be done about it. That is why Warp Institute, Warp News and Thoren Innovation School are starting a pilot project to make young people more optimistic.
📸 6D explains what happens to a product that is digitized
A physical product that becomes digital end up so cheap and accessible in its final stages that it becomes democratized.