by Warp Institute | Aug 18, 2020 | Cryptocurrency, Economics, Innovation, Society
The project began in 2018 when Akon announced that he was working with the Senegalese government to build a city with a cryptocurrency-based economy. Akon achieved fame and success as a singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer. He has sold over 35 million albums...
by Warp Institute | Jul 28, 2020 | Economics, Environment, Society
Vietnam is an important transit and destination country for several illegal animal products, including elephant ivory, rhinoceros, pangolin shells and tiger parts. It is now hoped that a new directive will work to combat wildlife trafficking in the country...
by Warp Institute | Jun 24, 2020 | Coronavirus, Society, Technology
Many future visions are about how we can utilize the airspace in a smarter way. Uber is developing flying urban taxi vehicles, and Swedish Globhe is gathering drone pilots in a global network to be able to move out into difficult terrain with medicine or disaster...
by Warp Institute | Jun 5, 2020 | Environment, Innovation, Society, Warp Interview
Jeff Kirshner, Founder & CEO of Litterati was never an active environmentalist. Nor was he an engineer. He is a writer by trade. However, much of that changed one afternoon as he was hiking through the woods with his kids. His four-year-old daughter noticed a...
by Warp Institute | May 15, 2020 | Fact-based optimism, Society, Technology
Led by Facebook, a group of telecom companies are collaborating to build the “most comprehensive” subsea cable to serve the African continent and Middle East region where nearly a billion people are still offline.The project, called 2Africa will see the...
