✍🏼 Essays
Every week you get a thought-provoking essay on how you can understand and create the future.
🧬 From games to science breakthrough - the story of AlphaFold
The history of computers competing against humans is long, and often attracts enormous attention. But what is it good for? What does it matter if a computer can win in chess, Go, or Starcraft? We got the answer when AlphaFold solved a 50-year old grand challenge in biology.
🌏 The future we want to come sooner
Imagine a world with global peace, everyone living in democracy, no extreme poverty and all children go to school. Imagine no CO2 emissions, super cheap, abundant and clean energy. Imagine everyone connected to the internet. Imagine over ten million people living in space.
💡 The future is created by optimists
What happens if more people are optimistic about the future? We will have more innovation and faster progress towards a better future.
🗞️ You can save local journalism and make a ton of money - want to know how?
Everyone thinks local journalism is going down the drain, but they confuse it with local newspapers. Zero distribution cost and the tools of the internet is a significant asset that can help you grab one of today's most massive business opportunities and at the same time support local democracy.
☠️ Doomscrolling - How your news feed gives you a negative worldview
Murder, war, and famine. What we doomscroll happens every day on earth. But we must understand that the news is a report of the worst that happens every given day. That is why we must balance our worldview.
🙄 Are optimists naive? No, but the pessimists are
Contrary to popular belief, it is the pessimists that are naive, not the optimists. Despite tremendous progress for humanity, they think that this progress will suddenly end, without any reason. That is irrational and foolish.
💡 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.
🤑 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.