by Warp Institute | Aug 31, 2022 | Environment, π‘ Optimist's Edge
📉 What people thinkWe are used to associating agriculture with open fields. Everything from historical forms of swidden burning to the logging of the Amazon. There are many examples of how trees and forests have been removed to prepare land for the production...
by Warp Institute | Aug 24, 2022 | π‘ Optimist's Edge
The pandemic brought with it a real boost for digitization. Remote work went from being possible to being realized widely within many different types of businesses. What does it do to working life when more people can work from anywhere? This is the big question for...
by Warp Institute | Aug 17, 2022 | π©π½βπ« Warp News Experts, π‘ Optimist's Edge, π° Space, π° Space Impact
The temperature on Earth is rising. Millions of initiatives are underway to tackle the problem, but if that isn't enough, an idea has emerged from astronaut Christer Fuglesang: What if we unfold a gigantic parasol in space to block sun rays and slow down global...
by Warp Institute | Aug 10, 2022 | π‘ Optimist's Edge
📉 What people thinkWould you be open to eating fruits and vegetables edited with the CRISPR gene scissors? 74 percent say no, and just 26 percent say yes.📈 Here are the factsThe gene scissors Crispr (CRISPR Cas-9) was created in 2012 and brought with...
by Warp Institute | Aug 3, 2022 | Drones, π‘ Optimist's Edge
Flying cars are one of the science fiction classics but also a symbol of how the future has proved to be very different from the imagination. So much so that the question "Where's my flying car?" has become emblematic of the wider failure of many modern...