✍🏼 Essays
Every week you get a thought-provoking essay on how you can understand and create the future.
💡 David Deutsch: Optimism, Pessimism and Cynicism
With so much progress in the world, how can pessimism still be widespread? It is because of cynicism, denying that “so-called-progress” is progress, argues David Deutsch, professor at Oxford University and one of the world's leading intellectuals on optimism.
🍽️ Why a plant-based diet will help you - and the planet - live longer
Do you want to live a longer and healthier life? Are you also keen on helping the planet last longer? Marco Borsari has some valuable news for you.
🌿 Hemp - the start of a veg-tech revolution?
Cultivated for millennia and used in many sectors such as textiles and food, the most recent research shows how hemp can replace many synthetic products in construction, automotive, environmental remediation, and pharma.
🧫 An incredible breakthrough – which almost no one has heard of
Humans have struggled with one of the grand challenges of biology, namely understanding how proteins are designed. Suddenly, last year, it was solved by an AI. The event happened to be the start of something even greater...
🌏 Super-narrow interests get audiences in the millions
The Internet gives us a way to reach billions of people and even very narrow interests can find their audience. This also applies to TV series that have previously at best become popular in their home country. They can now be enjoyed by millions
☀️ Warp your meetings in 2022 if you want to get more creative
To "warp a meeting" means that for a while you only think about possibilities. Problems and obstacles are addressed later. This we have noticed creates more ideas and makes us more eager to realize them.
💬 How the green revolution can be successful
If we want to build a truly sustainable world, it isn't enough, just harming the environment less. We need to recognize that the planet's health is imperative – and caring for it is tremendously rewarding, writes Marco Borsari.
💡 Battery prices continue to drop- what does that mean for electric cars?
Will electric cars be cheaper to buy than the equivalent petrol cars in 2025? And does it matter when the big shift from petrol to electricity takes place? We have updated our forecast from last spring.
🌍 The young voice in Africa is growing stronger
The challenges young people face in Africa are plenty. However, there is a lot of optimism in the young who are making use of education and their rights to participate in the political debate, writes Khumbu Muleya.