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💡 Optimist's Edge
The difference between what people believe and facts.
💡 Optimist's Edge: How large projects are completed on time and budget (learn from Pixar)
A mere 0.5 percent of all major projects are completed as planned and within budget. Have the pessimists FINALLY found something they're right about? One might think so, but...
💡 Optimist's Edge: The centaur's edge (how amateurs beat experts)
💡 Optimist's Edge: By becoming really good at using AI tools, amateurs can perform better than experts.
💡 Optimist's Edge: Prize competitions accelerate innovation
💡 Prize competitions accelerate innovation by both crowdsourcing ideas and financing.
💡 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.
💡 Optimist's Edge: Self-driving cars will be a freedom revolution for people with disabilities
💡 Self-driving cars will look different and be much cheaper to travel, meaning a freedom revolution for people with disabilities.
💡 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.
✍🏼 Warp News Essays
Weekly editorials on how to understand and create the future.
📖 Johan Norberg: How golden ages are created, how they end - and what it says about our time
Why do some societies become creative powerhouses while others stagnate? From Renaissance Florence to today's Silicon Valley, Norberg examines what makes civilizations flourish - and what threatens our own golden age.
🖌️ AI images now work as they should
AI-generated images have taken a huge step forward, and previous problems are now almost completely resolved.
🎧 Do you remember the iPod scare? Hearing loss, death, and robberies
Do you suffer from iPod thumb? Did you survive the iCrime wave? Are you hearing-impaired after years of music listening? Do you even recall all the problems we were supposedly facing in the iPod society?
🏹 The string snapped, but draw the bow again
Fairer the sound of the string that snapped, than never stretching the bow.
🤦 Progress like DeepSeek are what the pessimists always miss
AI development was heading for a wall, said the pessimists. Then DeepSeek appeared and shattered their argument.
🤯 Is Deep Research the biggest thing since ChatGPT?
By applying Deep Research to your information gathering, you become significantly more well-informed and knowledgeable - without it taking more time.
🦾 The Swedish runner-up’s best prompt tips
Joakim Jardenberg placed second in the Swedish Prompt Championship and is highly skilled at collaborating with AI assistants like Gemini and ChatGPT. Here, he shares his best tips.
🧪 "Frankenbabies" and what the pessimists said about IVF
Hell will break loose, said a Nobel Prize winner. We will see baby factories, said others. That's how they talked about in vitro fertilization then. We can learn from that now.
🦾 This is how we can get better politicians and smarter political decisions
I have built an AI secretary together with two Members of Parliament.
📚 E-books
Our E-books helps you deep dive into a subject.
📚 Sales of print books have increased 22% since 2004
Audiobooks are also increasing rapidly, with over 20 percent growth per year.
📚 E-book: Naive Pessimists
Meet the naysayers who thrive on doom, hog the spotlight - and get almost everything wrong.
📖 Read an excerpt from Naive Pessimists
READ AN EXCERPT: Meet the naysayers who thrive on doom, hog the spotlight - and get almost everything wrong.
📚 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 Åhlin writes about one of humanity's greatest achievements in this E-book.
📚 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.
📚 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".
👩🏽🏫 Warp News Expert Analysis
Our Warp News Experts write to help you to look into and understand the future.
🌱 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.
🥗 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.
🤔 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.
🧠 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.
🥗 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.
🧑🚀 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.