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📱 Non-violent resistance - the smartphone is mightier than the sword
To overthrow a dictatorship you need violence, right? Not if you want to increase your chances of success. Non-violent campaigns are twice as likely to succeed than violent campaigns in overthrowing oppression. And with social media and the smartphone a new weapon has emerged for the oppressed.
🌠 Starshot could spread life to other star systems
Project Starshot aims to send tiny spacecraft to our closest star system, Alpha Centauri at a speed of 20% of light speed. This opens the possibility of also sending life into space.
🏎️ Self-driving cars shapes up to be a three-way race
Is the self-driving race shaping up like the smartphone race, with two or three dominating software systems and many hardware makers? It sure looks like it.
🥇 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.