💡 Optimist's Edge
As a Warp News Premium Supporter, you get access to the Optimist's Edge. The difference between what people believe and the facts. Because of negative headlines and a pessimistic world-view, people miss important trends. We do surveys of what people believe and compare that with the facts, giving you unique insights
💡 How Jeff Bezos used the Optimist's Edge
Something called the internet was growing at 2300 percent per year. But it was dismissed as a fad. Jeff Bezos used Optimist's Edge to make a life-changing decision. You can do that too.
💡 Optimist's Edge: Self-driving cars will be a freedom revolution for people with disabilities
💡 Self-driving cars will look different and be much cheaper to travel, meaning a freedom revolution for people with disabilities.
💡 Optimist's Edge: Self-driving cars will be really fast
Few humans can drive at 200 miles per hour, like an F1 driver, and it is very dangerous to do so. But that would be easy peasy for an autonomous vehicle.
💡 Optimist's Edge: Self-driving cars will be extremely safe
💡 Self-driving cars will be many times safer than human-driven cars and save millions of lives and stop even more people from getting hurt.
💡 Optimist's Edge: Self-driving cars are almost here
💡 In 20 years humans will not be allowed to drive cars on regular roads, because computers by then will drive so much better. This will bring massive change, and lots of new opportunities. The time to start thinking about this is NOW.
💡 Optimist's Edge: Why we should make the future come sooner
Do you think fast progress is dangerous? Use the seat belt test. What if the seat belt had been invented ten years earlier? If progress in vehicle safety had been faster, thousands of lives would have been saved.
💡 Optimist's Edge: The prosperity of a world without wars
In 2021 the world spent over $2 trillion on military expenses. Over 2000 billion dollars! That is 2.1 percent of the world's gross domestic product, GDP. In a world at peace, that money could be used for science, lowering taxes, art, the environment – or whatever area you prioritize.
💡 2022: Optimist's Edge year in review
A hack to solve all of humanity's major problems. Connect your brain to the computer. Climate optimism. Milk without cows. And much more in this review of our year with 50 new Optimistic Edges.
💡 Optimist's Edge: AI is unleashing a massive wave of creativity
💡 AI will unleash massive untapped creativity by us tools to create things that before only were available to professionals. This unleashed creativity will create millions of jobs and tons of human progress.