✍🏼 Essays
Every week you get a thought-provoking essay on how you can understand and create the future.
🎷 AI isn’t a threat – it’s the music industry’s next superhit
The music industry is terrified of AI-generated music. It shouldn’t be. AI music is about to become the biggest hit in music history.
⛪ Tobias Wahlqvist: Pessimism is a kind of religion
No culture has ever existed without religion. And neither do we. Robin Dunbar shows that religion is not about God, but about belonging. In our secular age, pessimism has become the creed. Complaining is the ritual. And the optimist? A heretic.
✊ My American love story — and why I believe the U.S. will not become a dictatorship
I fell in love with the United States on election night in 2004. Twenty years later, I stood in tears by the Statue of Liberty, wondering if it was over. This is a story of grief and betrayal — and why I still believe the American people will defend and save their democracy.
📼 Technelegy
A new word, helping us cope with the sorrow for what has been lost, and look forward to what is to come.
🤔 Wasn't China supposed to invent ChatGPT? That's what you said
"China will win the AI race!" was a commonly voiced fear until recently. But this has not been heard much since the release of ChatGPT. Once again, messy democracies were underestimated, and planned dictatorships were overestimated.
💡 Tomorrowland
"If I saw a child with a jetpack flying over me, I would believe anything is possible. I would be inspired. Doesn't that make the world a better place?"
🦾 What can we learn from the Swedish IT miracle for the AI era?
Newsweek named Stockholm Europe's internet capital. Swedes had the most computers and the best broadband in the world. From the Swedish IT miracle, Skype, Spotify, and many other unicorns were born. What can we learn from that as we now try to create AI miracles?
🤴 Lord of the Pessimists: Paul Ehrlich
Paul Ehrlich calls himself an eternal optimist, but he is the greatest pessimist of our time. Because he makes the most common and serious mistake that pessimists make.
🆙 Warp Levels - an idea to level up humanity
Humanity is doing the high jump without a bar. We have no goal. With Warp Levels, we determine what the next level for humanity should contain, so we can level up and make progress faster.