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💡 Tips from Warp News: Food out of thin air & maps of progress
Ken Follett's new book, interactive maps that show the world's progress, food out of thin air, why people are so pessimistic about the future - and finally a way to know if the ice cream at McDonald's is broken.
🙄 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.
🚘 Autonomous vehicles take a step forward
Within a couple of weeks, three companies have announced important steps in the quest for self-driving cars. Tesla launched a beta test of their autonomous technology. Waymo opens up its driverless taxi service to the public in Phoenix, Arizona. And Cruise is doing the same thing in San Francisco.
Alexandra Kafka Larsson: My vision is a world where decisions are based on data - with respect to everyone's differences
She is a former intelligence officer, who now works as Chief Information Architect at Combitech. AI and VR are the technologies that will do the most good for humanity in the future, she believes.
💡 Tips from Warp News: Musk on Mars & why degrowth won't save our planet
Daniel Yergin's latest book, Wright's Law, first videos of Tesla's Full-Self Driving beta, Musk's latest Mars update, Andrew McAfee on growth and the environment plus you campaign slogan for 2020.
💡 The Optimist's Edge
What important truth do very few people agree with you on? In the answer lies a big opportunity. Because revolutionary ideas and global business ideas are usually not found in what is already mainstream. The fact-based optimist has this advantage because they can easily answer the question.
🍔 From plant burgers that bleed to agricultural drones - this is FoodTech
The technology we use in our food production is becoming increasingly advanced. So advanced that we are now entering a new paradigm. Now, in the 21st century, we have therefore also begun to use a new word to describe this technique.
💡 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.
💡 Meet the Warp News Experts that help you understand the future
One astronaut, one neuroscientist and medical doctor, one food tech expert, one future astronaut, one sustainability entrepreneur and one former professor of innovation - that will help you understand the future and get the optimist's edge.