This is a premium article opened for you by our Premium Supporters. They support our work to spread fact-based optimism. If you also want to support us, you can read more here.In this article, the debate is embodied by three people: The today unknown but enormously...
Space is not something just "out there." However, most people, including royals such as the Duke of Cambridge, tend to believe that. In an attempt to address the climate issue, Prince William recently criticized entrepreneurs –...
Mankind has a long tradition of predicting doomsday. But fortunately, despite predictions of nuclear war, epidemics, and asteroid strikes, no one has been right so far.Now, in 2021, when, despite the pandemic, we have a historically long life expectancy, low child...
It may sound like an ambitious statement, to say the least. Still, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, seems to be serious: its impact on our development as a species will be even more significant than fire, electricity, and the internet.He believes that artificial...
As an optimist, you are often faced with an interesting dilemma: the rest of the world thinks that the world is getting worse, and you think that it will get better – should you try to convince everyone else that it really gets better? Or is it that we have...
Change is inevitable, especially when coming out of a crisis. But how much the world is changing after the pandemic is yet to be answered. Recently, the OECD initiated a policy discussion on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic as fundamental parts of how societies...