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🥇 Peak and the extraordinary potential of human beings
There no such thing a "10,000 Hour Rule" to become a world-class expert. But with deliberate practice (for many hours) everyone has the potential to become an expert. Professor K Anders Ericsson has shown us the enormous talent and potential in every human being.
🚀 Going to space will cost only $2,000
Traveling to space today costs tens of millions of dollar, but within a couple of decades it can be as cheap as $2,000.
👴🏻 This is how I will live to be 122 years old - at least
I'm going to try to live to the age of 122. Then I think and hope that we have achieved a breakthrough that will allow life to be extended even further. It's not science fiction, the breakthrough is close, says David Sinclair, professor of genetics at Harvard.
🌞 Insanely low solar prices
Even the most optimistic forecasters have been wrong, the price of solar energy has dropped even faster. Soon it is cheaper to build new solar energy than to retain existing coal and gas.
💡 Warp Manifesto for the 2020s
The Warp Institute Foundation wants to help make people more optimistic about the future. It makes them more involved in creating that future, so we can bend the curve for humanity's development and make the future come faster.
📈 To build we need optimism
Netscape's founder, and the creator of the first web browser, Marc Andreessen wants us to build more. For that, we need more optimism. Optimists have more ideas, create more out of the ideas and do not give up as easily.
☀️ The first WIP ambassador: "Warp is needed now more than ever"
The corona crisis causes many people to become depressed. That's why Warp is needed now more than ever, says Rune Westergard, Warp Institute's first WIP Ambassador.
🔭 Wright's Law is the best way to predict the future
Understanding the future is the most valuable knowledge there is. The prime example is Moore's Law. But there is another law with even higher accuracy that can teach us a lot about the future, not at least about electric cars.
🐉 Mother of Dragons acted like all dictators
Many were surprised when Daenerys chose to destroy King's Landing with her dragon. But it was the most realistic moment in the entire series (apart from the use of a dragon ...) Authoritarian power always leads to the slaughter of innocents.