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💡 Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news
👮 U.S. murder rate drops. 🌍 Successful trials of new meningitis vaccine in Africa. 🏭 Global climate emissions no longer on worst-case trajectory. 🍦 Sweet! Eat ice cream made from air.
💡 Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news
🧠 Paralysed man walks again. 🚗 New test: 81 miles increased range for electric cars. 🧭 New study: Morality not in decline. 🦾 Marc Andreessen in strong comeback against AI doomers (summarized).
💡 Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news
🎗️ Breast cancer is detected by AI + doctors. 🔋 Homevolt: Big investment in home batteries from Tibber. 📚 Kevin Kelly: Focus on the biggest opportunities, not the biggest problems.
💡 Musings of The Angry Optimist: FINALLY some pushback against AI doomerism
Several heavyweights who disagree with the AI pessimists have made no effort to really push back on the doomsday rhetoric. But now Marc Andreessen finally does!
💡 Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news
🚗 An electric car is the world's best-selling car. 😮 Tegmark's astonishing response. 🚰 Wayout to build 30 water systems in the Maldives - offering clean water to thousands. 🛫 Electric airplanes are impos... oh wait: New battery with high energy density
💡 Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news
🌝 Bezos' Blue Origin gets to build second moon lander. 🔋 Small batteries stepped in - showcasing the strength of the Energy Society. 🐒 Monkeypox no longer a global health scare. ☢️ Building the world's first micro-modular nuclear reactor.
👩💻 Now, now, NOW! Now is the time to create!
Did you wish in the mid-1990s you had been a Mark Cuban or Jeff Bezos? Then you have the chance again now. Reach out and pick one of them.
💡 Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news
🗳️ Support for democracy is very high. ⚡ A fusion-powered future: closer than we think? 📊 Facts change people's beliefs about terrorism - that is a fact.
💡 Musings of The Angry Optimist: The power of democracy activism and technology
At the Copenhagen Democracy Summit, I think about how technology can contribute to democracy.