On a stunning sunny morning on the way to school with my 9-year-old, I open the front door and exclaim: “Welcome to your beautiful world!”My daughter retorts with a sullen look: “No, it’s a terrible, polluted world.”Another time, I...
Air pollution is exhaust gases and particles that occur in harmfully high concentrations, usually due to human activity. The negative health effects of air pollution became particularly evident after hundreds, in some cases thousands, of people died as a direct...
The logic of individualism has been dominant in Western capitalist society over the last century.But it wasn't always like this. For millennia everything had been shared in traditional extended families: from living space between humans and animals, to every...
This is a premium article, part of our premium content for Premium Supporters. Open for everyone thanks to the premium supporter's generous contributions.WISDOM OF CROWDS, part 2.The first part can be found here.At the Warp Institute we want the future to come...
WISDOM OF CROWDS, Part 1Wikipedia and democracy not only work – they work better. All thanks to what James Surowiecki calls the Wisdom of Crowds, in the book of the same title.Surowiecki opens the book with an example from 1906 when Francis Galton was given the...
This is a premium article, part of our content for Premium Supporters, open for everyone thanks to the members' generous contributions.In parts of the world, Coke is sold in new cans. Taller, sleeker and less aluminum is required to make them. In Sweden alone,...