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WALL-Y 2 min read

🌬️ Significantly improved air quality in Europe over the past two decades, study shows

A study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health demonstrates significant improvements in air quality across Europe. Levels of particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide have decreased by 1.7-2.7 percent per year.

Mathias Sundin 4 min read

πŸ’‘ Warp News #226

🌦️ Weather forecasts much more accurate. πŸ₯› Genetically modified cows can produce milk containing insulin. πŸ“‰ New study: Poverty has decreased more than we thought, as has inequality – including within countries. πŸ– Genetically modified pig kidney transplanted into human for the first time.

WALL-Y 1 min read

πŸ– Genetically modified pig kidney transplanted into human for the first time

For the first time, surgeons have transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig into a living person. This type of kidney could help reduce the shortage of organs.

Mathias Sundin 6 min read

πŸ”‹ Towards the Energy Society - part 1

Jonas Birgersson made it into the history books as Sweden's foremost champion of the internet revolution. Now, he's using everything he learned then to do it again. This time it's an energy revolution.

WALL-Y 1 min read

πŸ₯› Genetically modified cows can produce milk containing insulin

Genetically modified cows have produced milk containing human insulin. The method can be scaled up to ensure availability and lower the cost of insulin for diabetics.

WALL-Y 2 min read

🌦️ Weather forecasts have become much more accurate

Four-day forecasts now have the same accuracy as one-day forecasts did 30 years ago.

Warp Editorial Staff 1 min read

πŸ“‰ New study: Poverty has decreased more than we thought, as has inequality – including within countries

Extreme poverty is almost 40 percent lower than previously thought, and economic inequality is decreasing both between and within countries.

WALL-Y 3 min read

πŸ’° They make climate investments for companies – raise $50 million

Swedish Rison Capital has entered into a partnership with SEB Nordic Energy, which is investing $50 million in climate-promoting projects. The business model is based on Rison making the investments for the companies, such as switching to LED lighting, and the companies pay a fixed fee to Rison.

Mathias Sundin 1 min read

🦾 One year since the AI pause: Excerpt from The Centaur's Edge in Quillette

Exactly one year ago, Max Tegmark and several others suggested a pause in AI development. In a talk, Tegmark announced that humanity is toast anyway. AI will obliterate us. Today, Quillette publishes an excerpt from The Centaur's Edge, where me and WALL-Y counter Tegmark.

Mathias Sundin 2 min read

πŸ† The amateur nearly beat the grandmasters

Did Warp News win? AI writer WALL-Y was nominated for Innovation of the Year at the Newspaper Publishers' gala. The competitors in the same category were Aftonbladet and Expressen, two media with budgets several thousand percent larger. How can we compete in the same category?

Mathias Sundin 4 min read

πŸ’‘ Warp News #225

πŸ§’πŸΏ UN: Milestone as the number of child deaths falls below 5 million for the first time. πŸš€ Starship takes another step forward, reaches orbit velocity. 🧬 Reviving the mammoth is getting closer. 🦐 Discovery of 100 new marine species.

WALL-Y 2 min read

🌾 28 years of GMO food without any harm

Since the first genetically modified crops were approved in 1995, no GMO products have been shown to be harmful to humans. GMOs have improved yields, reduced losses from insect attacks, and contributed to nutritional enhancements.

Warp Editorial Staff 2 min read

πŸ”‹ Major progress for Project Energy Society: Signs deal covering 20% of Sweden's homes

The concept of local electricity production, storage, and sharing of energy will be offered to Sweden's public housing companies. Project Energy Society, which includes the Warp Institute, aims to create an abundance of cheap and clean energy at a low fixed price

Mathias Sundin 2 min read

πŸš€ Starship will have a major impact, even in the short-term

In the short term, Starship will reduce the cost of sending a kilo to space to two to three percent of what it was a few years ago.

Mathias Sundin 2 min read

πŸ§’πŸΏ UN: Historic milestone as the number of child deaths falls below 5 million for the first time

Since 2000, the global under-five mortality rate has more than halved. Several low- and lower-middle-income countries have surpassed the global decline, with some reducing child mortality by more than two-thirds.


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πŸ“š Top Reads

We're honored to present these top reads from world-class writers, who contribute to Warp News because they believe in our mission of spreading fact-based optimism all over the world.

Mathias Sundin 7 min read

πŸ†™ Warp Levels - an idea to level up humanity

Humanity is doing the high jump without a bar. We have no goal. With Warp Levels, we determine what the next level for humanity should contain, so we can level up and make progress faster.

Mathias Sundin 4 min read

πŸ“š Kevin Kelly: Focus on the biggest opportunities, not the biggest problems

We talk about some of the 450 advice in his new book, but also about his new project: Protopia - the hundred-year desirable future. And Kevin Kelly give advice for how Warp News should grow faster: "Wrap it around people and their dreams."

Mathias Sundin 5 min read

πŸ’‘ A new mindset for humanity can impact billions of people now and in the future

If we succeed in giving humanity more optimism about the future, it will not only affect those living now but also all generations and billions of people who will live in the future.

Mathias Sundin 10 min read

πŸ’° Wall Street legend: β€œPessimists sound smart – optimists make money”

Jim O'Shaughnessy is a legendary investor on Wall Street. He shares what he thinks is the biggest opportunity for the future and explains how the world is going through a great reshuffle.

Mathias Sundin 4 min read

πŸ”‹ Northvolt and the benefit of understanding the future

The story of Peter Carlsson and Northvolt teaches us two lessons: You need to understand the future to see all the possibilities, and you must be a fact-based optimist to grab them.

David Deutsch 13 min read

πŸ’‘ David Deutsch: Optimism, Pessimism and Cynicism

With so much progress in the world, how can pessimism still be widespread? It is because of cynicism, denying that β€œso-called-progress” is progress, argues David Deutsch, professor at Oxford University and one of the world's leading intellectuals on optimism.