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πŸ’‘ Optimist's Edge


The difference between what people believe and facts.

Mathias Sundin 5 min read

πŸ’‘ Optimist's Edge: The centaur's edge (how amateurs beat experts)

πŸ’‘ Optimist's Edge: By becoming really good at using AI tools, amateurs can perform better than experts.

Mathias Sundin 4 min read

πŸ’‘ Optimist's Edge: Prize competitions accelerate innovation

πŸ’‘ Prize competitions accelerate innovation by both crowdsourcing ideas and financing.

Mathias Sundin 4 min read

πŸ’‘ 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.

Mathias Sundin 2 min read

πŸ’‘ Optimist's Edge: Self-driving cars will be a freedom revolution for people with disabilities

πŸ’‘ Self-driving cars will look different and be much cheaper to travel, meaning a freedom revolution for people with disabilities.

Mathias Sundin 4 min read

πŸ’‘ 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.

Mathias Sundin 4 min read

πŸ’‘ Optimist's Edge: Self-driving cars will be extremely safe

πŸ’‘ 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.

✍🏼 Warp News Essays


Weekly editorials on how to understand and create the future.

Mathias Sundin 3 min read

πŸ€– Development of AI bot WALL-Y – part 2

Experiences and tips after Warp News AI writer now has turned newscaster.

Mathias Sundin 2 min read

🦾 A productive centaur

New research indicates a significant increase in productivity and quality for those who used ChatGPT compared to those who didn't.

Mathias Sundin 3 min read

πŸ’‘ Musings of the Angry Optimist: Don't look up, look forward

Is humanity at a crossroads? Two optimistic videos claim so. But such a crossroads does not exist.

Mathias Sundin 4 min read

3️⃣ Three steps to become a fact-based optimist

Does it feel like the world is filled with horrors and almost nothing good happens? The terrible things are just one part of reality. To discover the other part, you need a different perspective. One that makes you feel better but also helps you see opportunities that pessimists overlook.

Mathias Sundin 5 min read

πŸ’‘ Optimist's Edge: The centaur's edge (how amateurs beat experts)

πŸ’‘ Optimist's Edge: By becoming really good at using AI tools, amateurs can perform better than experts.

Mathias Sundin 5 min read

πŸ“– Will MacAskill: Think long term - act now

We spoke to the world-renowned philosopher about what the future deserves, why the future is likely to be good - and how you can impact it.

Mathias Sundin 2 min read

πŸ“š Optimistic feelgood books for the summer

Book recommendations for the beach, hammock, or deck chair.

Mathias Sundin 6 min read

πŸ“° The fear-mongering news media... invited me

Warp News was invited to talk about optimistic news for the newsroom at Expressen.

Mathias Sundin 4 min read

🧠 Why are people so pessimistic about the future? Part 3 - our own brains

Our brains are on high alert when it comes to perceived danger. That was great thousands of years ago, but today the world is much less dangerous, and now our instinct makes us pessimistic.

πŸ“š E-books


Our E-books helps you deep dive into a subject.

Ulrika Gerth 1 min read

πŸ“š E-book: Naive Pessimists

Meet the naysayers who thrive on doom, hog the spotlight - and get almost everything wrong.

Ulrika Gerth 7 min read

πŸ“– Read an excerpt from Naive Pessimists

READ AN EXCERPT: Meet the naysayers who thrive on doom, hog the spotlight - and get almost everything wrong.

Daniel Γ…hlin 2 min read

πŸ“š E-book: The Corona Vaccine Revolution

All experts were wrong. No one thought it was possible to get corona vaccines this fast. How was this possible? Daniel Γ…hlin writes about one of humanity's greatest achievements in this E-book.

Sakke Teerikoski 1 min read

πŸ“š E-book: Top 20 Space Breakthroughs 2020

2020 has been a very special year in space and in space-related activities. It has seen a long series of breakthroughs that have changed the way we think about space – here are the top 20.

Mathias Sundin 2 min read

πŸ“š E-book: Optimist's Edge

Facts and optimism make it attainable to spot the opportunities in a changing world. The possibilities that most people miss because they have the wrong facts, or don't think they are doable because they are pessimistic. In this book you learn about "Optimist's Edge".

Sakke Teerikoski 1 min read

πŸ“š E-book: The New Space Race

In the 1960’s the US and Soviet Union went head to head in the race to space. Today, sixty years later, the new space race has set its eyes not just on going to orbit around Earth, researching asteroids for minerals and going back to the Moon.

πŸ‘©πŸ½β€πŸ« Warp News Expert Analysis


Our Warp News Experts write to help you to look into and understand the future.

Magnus Aschan 3 min read

🌱 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 SkavΓ©n Ruben.

BjΓΆrn Bertoft 8 min read

πŸ₯— Are you ready for the new food? – Invasive species, insects and fish on land

We already know that meat production, trawling, and one-sided farming in mega-format are environmental culprits with an end date. But now new types of climate-smart food are being developed.

Nicklas Berild Lundblad 12 min read

πŸ€” The responsibility of platforms – a guide for the perplexed

Over the past decade, we have had an increasingly vocal debate about the responsibility of platforms and the future of freedom of expression. Nicklas Berild Lundblad believes that there is reason to be optimistic about the development.

Magnus Aschan 7 min read

🧠 Doctor Mouna: Understand your pandemic brain – and get optimistic about the future

The coronavirus has kidnapped our brain. The development is much more positive than most people are aware of, says Mouna Esmaeilzadeh, doctor, neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and not least Warp News Expert in Health Tech.

BjΓΆrn Bertoft 6 min read

πŸ₯— Are you ready for the new food? - Oumph, algae and lab grown meat

We already know that meat production, trawling, and monoculture farming in mega formats are environmental culprits with an end date. But there is new climate-smart food being developed – and it's happening fast.

Magnus Aschan 8 min read

πŸ§‘β€πŸš€ Astronaut Fuglesang about the New Space Race – and going up again

The interest in space has not been this great in 50 years. We are on our way back to the Moon, and the sight is set on Mars. Why does this happen now? This and much more is answered by former astronaut and Warp News space expert, Christer Fuglesang.