Our Mission & Vision
to connect optimistic, forward thinking people to together level up humanity.ity.
We are high jumping without a bar
You’ve made up your mind.
You’re going to become the world’s best high jumper!
Which method gives you the best chance of success, training with or without a bar?
Humanity is constantly evolving. But we are high jumping without a bar.
On a global level, important things like life, health, wealth, and education are improving. This is thanks to everyone who sees a chance for improvement and is determined to realize it. Most big problems are getting smaller, but progress should be faster.
This is because we have no goal. You can improve at high jumping even without a bar, but if you have a goal and measure your progress, you see faster, more powerful results.
What do we want with humanity? Where are we headed? Where do we want to go? What do you want? What do I want?
Humanity needs a goal. A direction.
Seeing the bar
Kevin Kelly writes in The Case for Optimism:
It is extremely difficult to create a desirable future without first envisioning it. To imagine is really the first step in creating anything. Therefore an essential chore for making a future we want to live in, is to imagine what it is like and how we get there.
When we envision what we want to achieve and pull together to do it, we can achieve incredible things in a short time. The moon landing in the 1960s. The Covid vaccines in 2020. The UN’s Millennium Goals helped lift a billion people from extreme poverty.
Imagine if we clearly envisioned the future we want.
Imagine if we pulled together to create it.
Imagine if we had a clear goal, showing how we take humanity to the next level.
For that, we need a bar to jump over.
The solution: Warp Levels
The solution is that we decide what the next level of humanity should be. That gives us a common goal to work towards. The bar to jump over.
I call it Warp Levels.
The number of levels can be as many as we wish; we can think far into the future if we want. But the most important is the next level.
With Warp Levels we know what it takes to level up humanity.
Warp Initiatives
Project Energy Society
Project Energy Society
All the electricity you need for a low, fixed fee. In the 1990s, Jonas Birgersson became an internet pioneer by promising and delivering all the internet you need for a low cost. Now he believes that the same thing can be done with electricity.
Warp Institute and Jonas Birgersson will make this a reality – and you are invited to join us. We will host events and workshops and organize an online community to make this future come true.
Centaur School
Centaur School
The new AI tools represent a revolution for schools. For the first time, it’s possible for every student to have a really smart private tutor, in every subject. And for teachers and other school staff to contribute to better teaching. Together with the Tellus Group, we drive Project Centaur School.
Warp News
Fact-based, optimistic news
The world is far better than you’re being told. We write about the fact-based, optimistic news that shows what’s really going on. Warp News shares stories focusing on possibilities first, balancing the constant negative headlines. These stories of innovation and human progress, give you an edge over the pessimists.
Subscribe for free and join the thousands of fact-based optimists who are impacting the world for a better future.
“Together, we can decide which of the ideas are best and most important to implement – and together realize them. If we succeed, we have created a global moonshot factory and have a great opportunity to help warp the development curve towards a better future.“
– Mathias Sundin, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman
Warp Institute co-founder Mathias Sundin at hub.berlin – “Make The Future Come Sooner”
Who We Are
The Warp Institiute Team
Mathias Sundin
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Warp Foundation
Mathias Sundin is co-founder and executive chairman of Warp Institute. Former Member of Parliament and former Deputy Mayor. TEDx speaker and international keynote speaker, and author of two books.
Eric Porper
Co-Founder & Business Development - Warp News
Experienced Chief Strategy Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. He is a strong business development professional skilled in Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Go-to-market Strategy, Applications, and Management.
Rich Spuller
Co-Founder of Warp News & Web Presence Coordinator
Rich is a seasoned professional in web technologies as well as in content creation and marketing. His diverse experience spans the fields of event organization, planning, and management; Blockchain and Cryptocurrency adoption advocacy; web design and development; database management; customer service management; and strategic sales.
Who We Are
The Warp Advisory Board
Mouna Esmaeilzadeh
Doctor, Neuroscientist, Warp News Health Tech Expert
In addition to her many professional accolades and achievements, Doctor Mouna is also a recurring member of Swedish TV4 and winner of the Warp Fact-Based Optimist of the Year 2019 award.
Tom Skalak
Senior advisor to Clara Wu. Former Founding Executive Director of the Paul Allen Frontiers Group
Tom Skalak joined the Clara Wu and Joe Tsai Foundation in 2018 as Senior Advisor to Clara Wu. He was previously the founding Executive Director of The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group in Seattle. Tom is Vice President for Research Emeritus of the University of Virginia.
Karin Nilsdotter
CEO of Spaceport Sweden, future astronaut
Karin has extensive experience in the commercial space industry internationally. She has been recognized by WIRED as a game-changer in the world, as a leading woman in new space globally and awarded Tech Woman of the Year in Sweden.
Warp Ambassadors
Richard Maltsbarger
CEO of Pet Retail Brand and former COO and President International of Lowe's
Former Chief Operating Officer at Lowe’s with 1740 stores, 280 000 employees and $70 billion in sales. Richard Maltsbarger has served in several leading roles during his 14 years at Lowe’s. Before becoming COO has was President, International and Chief Development Officer. Now CEO of $1,2 billion retail company, Pet Retail Brands.
Oskar Söderström
Oskar describes himself as an outgoing, business-driven, entrepreneurial professional with a burning passion to self-evolve by evolving others and the business he is in. He thrives within existing structures, but also has a passion for finding and applying new creative solutions to any given challenge.
Rune Westergård
Rune is an entrepreneur and author. During his career, he has been engaged in several innovations in the field of environmental technology. He also founded the technology consultancy company Citec.
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