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💡 Optimist's Edge: This is when electric cars will be cheaper than petrol cars
72 percent are completely wrong about when electric cars will be cheaper to buy than petrol cars, and out of those half think that it will NEVER happen. Electric vehicles will overtake petrol cars when the cost of the battery makes them cheaper to buy. We reveal when this will happen.
📝 Warp News Impact Report - March 2021
We published the best-selling author of the Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley. Named Johan Kuylienstierna Fact-based Optimist of the Year and set a date for Warp Space Summit.
⚡️Superconductors - The Holy Grail in energy science
If a single material became superconducting and conducted electric current without resistance at room temperature, we could solve the world's energy problems. Recently, several breakthroughs have been made and the dream of frictionless electricity is now closer than ever.
🌱 Viral outbreaks cause plant-based foods to grow at a record rate
Consumption of meat is declining in large parts of the world, while we are eating more plant-based foods. Virus outbreaks and pandemics seem to be accelerating this development, says Warp News Food Tech expert Daniel Skavén Ruben.
🌏 Corona makes it easy to be optimistic about coopetition
The recent vaccine race could be the first impressive example of how cooperative competition, or coopetition, on a larger scale will fold out in the 2020s, writes Anna Rennéus Guthrie.
⬆️ Optimism's Theory of Knowledge
The optimist's view differs from the pessimist's in a fundamental respect: the optimist sees what could be done with the half-full glass, what it can be used for, and who might need a little water right now, writes Nicklas Berild Lundblad.
💨 How Amazon delivers at super speed — and other benefits of E-commerce
Online spending skyrocketed around the globe in 2020 — and no other company got a larger piece of that pie than Amazon. Ulrika Gerth takes a deep dive into how they can deliver so fast, and what benefits e-commerce gives us in general.
💉 Matt Ridley: The unexpected history and miraculous success of vaccines
At a time when the miraculous success of vaccines has transformed the battle against the pandemic it is fitting to recall the general idea, and unexpected history, behind vaccination, writes Matt Ridley, bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and How Innovation Works.
📝 Warp News Impact Report - February 2021
We live-streamed NASA landing on Mars, launched our first (very popular!) quiz and started recruiting new volunteers. Our most read article was about Elon Musk.