Warp News produces fact-based optimistic news to balance the negative news in other media.
You can support Warp News by becoming a WIP.
You'll also get:
- Premium content with comments and analysis exclusive for WIP.
- We curate and share tips on content and news relevant to understand the future.
- Early access to content and Warp and WIP events.
- A global network of optimistic, forward-looking people.
- The right to vote and decide what projects Warp Institute should support.
If you join now, you are part of the first 1,000 global WIPs and will forever be a Founding WIP.
Warp Important Person
A WIP is a forward-looking person who contributes to a better future and, through the membership, increases their own opportunity to influence it.
Support Warp News
The monthly contribution for WIP is $10, or $100 for one year. Of that money, 50% goes directly towards the production and sharing of fact-based optimistic content via Warp News.
Today, Warp News consists of the website at news.warpinstitute.org, a podcast, a newsletter, and all content is shared on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.
When we reach 1,000 WIPs, we’ll add a YouTube channel for Warp News and do a weekly episode.
The Impact of Your Money
Of the $10/month or $100 a year you are creating real impact.
50% goes to the production of fact-based optimistic news via Warp News. This will help balance the negative bias in other media and make people more optimistic about the future.
20% goes to WIP premium content, curation and analysis that will help you and fellow WIPs to understand the future and better and how to impact it.
30% goes to Warp supported projects nominated by the Warp community and decided by the WIPs.
Premium Content with Expertise About the Future
The thing that we all lack most is time. So we use our expertise to find and share the podcasts, articles, books, videos, movies, and events that are most relevant to understand the future.
You’ll also get our own premium material of articles and analysis to peek into tomorrow and show how you can have a bigger impact on that future.
Of your 10 dollars, 20% goes to the production of WIP content, events, and also the Warp administration. (Boring… but the bookkeeping needs to be done.)
The premium content is produced by Mathias Sundin, the founder of Warp Institute and former Member of Parliament, Sweden.
In Parliament, he worked with some of the world’s most successful startups, like Spotify, to craft legislation. He also worked on policy for self-driving vehicles, drones, Hyperloop, agile contracts, and more. 2016-2018 he was chairman of Sweden’s oldest bitcoin company.
He was a member of the jury at the XPRIZE Visioneers and speaker at and member of the World Frontiers Forum at Harvard and MIT.
Sundin pushed the European Space Agency to develop reusable rockets, and also the Swedish government to adopt a new national space policy (which it did) with the goal of send a Swedish citizen to Mars as part of an international Mars mission (which it didn’t).
Mr. Sundin understands technology, policy, and society which gives him a unique perspective to analyze the future.
More Reasons To Join
Vote and decide what projects Warp should support
When you become a WIP you’ll get tokens that you can use to vote.
The projects will be nominated by the Warp community, vetted by the Warp executive team, and then the WIPs make the decision which projects should get the support.
The token will be launched in Q1 2020, and you then get tokens for all of the time you’ve been a WIP.
30 percent of your $10 will support projects.
Your name in space
Until the next vote, the 30% – $3 per WIP – goes to Warp Space Program and the world’s first asteroid mission.
The launch of the test mission is in Q4 2020, and your name will then go to space on that spacecraft. And if you remain a WIP your name will also travel all the way to the asteroid, with planned launch about a year after the test mission.
A global network of entrepreneurial, optimistic people
The Warp community is spread across the globe. You can find warpers in almost every country. The WIPs are the most forward-looking and optimistic people in an already very future-oriented crowd.
If you are a person that wants to impact the future, we can think of no better network to be part of
Added Benefits!
The chance to share with the WIP network about interesting things that you do.
In both the premium email and Warp’s free newsletters, we briefly describe the exciting things that WIPs find.
Add WIP to your LinkedIn Profile.
A digital WIP badge that you can share on social media.
25% discount on Warp Summits (International conferences)
Some of what we plan to do in the coming two years:
- Continue growing the reach of Warp News and adding new channels, like YouTube.
- Help launch the world’s first asteroid mission.
- Grow the entire Warp community to at least 500 000 people.
- Grow the WIP community to at least 10 000 people.
- Host the Warp Space Summit.
- Host the Warp Green Tech Summit.
- Fund exciting projects that help warp the curve of human progress.
- Spread the Warp Talk all over the globe.
Some of what we’ve done in our first two years:
- Grew our community to over 15,000 people in 70+ countries.
- Organized over ten meetups, that grew from 25 to 300 people.
- Hosted five lunches in the Swedish Parliament with several MPs.
- Written four reports on digitization in education, health, the labor market and on green tech and climate change.
- Crowdfunded money to buy Swedish Members of Parliament Steven Pinker’s book Enlightenment Now.
- Collaboration with Singularity University.
- Launched the world’s first crowdsourced and crowd-performed talk, the Warp Talk. Now seen by over 3000 people.
