✍🏼 Essays
Every week you get a thought-provoking essay on how you can understand and create the future.
💬 Things were better before – weren’t they?
With nearly eight billion people on the planet, there are always people whose current situation is not good, and they may well have had it better in the past. But on a macro level, there is no question about it – we have never had it better, writes Kelly Odell.
💬 Now is the time to reap the benefits of digitalization
The pandemic isn't all bad. In terms of work, we now see many benefits with becoming increasingly digitalized: more productive, less sick, and more equal. Let's not let this slip away by bringing back the old normal, writes Anna Rennéus Guthrie.
🌎 The near-death experience of the multiverse
The fine-tuning irritates the prosaic. But still, it can be found everywhere in physics. Do you know about the fine-tuning that enabled the creation of the multiverse?
💬 The Real Danger is Pessimism
Being optimistic is not about turning a blind eye to difficulties, but focusing on how they can be solved. That is how the good forces emerged victorious from one of history's darkest moments, writes Magnus Aschan.
💡 Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism
Kevin Kelly is the founder of Wired Magazine and author of several books, among them The Inevitable. For Warp News he presents his case for optimism.
✌️ Optimism and the Prisoner's Dilemma
Is there a formula to rely on in human interaction? It seems like there is, and you have probably already guessed it... It is an optimistic one!
🚕"That's a shame! I was planning to get hens"
It is a cliché but still true. It's hard to believe in success if there are no such stories in your own history. In your own family. I often think of Åke's, almost impossible, journey.
💬The new space race is the best thing that could happen to the earth
The new space race led by companies such as SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin, along with the voyage to Mars, is our salvation. Warp News editor-in-chief Magnus Aschan explains why.
👍 The extreme optimist
Nicklas Berlind Lundblad met Stanford Professor John McCarthy in the early 200s and it was the sort of meeting you don't forget.