Mathias Sundin

It's an ordinary Thursday in an ordinary conference room. But something unique is taking shape there. With the help of a power few people know about, but one that helps you better understand the future.

A handful of books that will hopefully make your summer better.

🚰 Polluted drinking water in the US has been cut in half. 📉 Data centers have lowered Americans' electricity bills. 🎗️ No young women died of cervical cancer in England.

🏍️ Electric motorcycles accelerate in Africa. 📉 Child marriage continue to decline in India. 🛰️ A satellite read its own images, could keep watch on Earth in real time.

✂️ New CRISPR method destroys cancer cells. 🛫 Autonomous system designed to fly itself from takeoff to touchdown. 🧬 The bluebuck went extinct in 1799, now it is being de-extincted.

📊 No rise in unemployment due to AI. 🛩️ The world's largest electric hybrid aircraft has flown for the first time. 🚭 Tobacco use in India has halved in twenty years.

👦 U.S. teenagers are drinking, smoking, and fighting less and less. 👮 Largest drop in violent crime and murder in the US since 1937. 🦝 The numbat was nearly extinct, now it is no longer classified as endangered.

That the news media are one long doomscroll makes us all a little dumb. But how unbalanced are they? I have built a news scale.

🔥 The world has never burned this little. 📉 HIV infections and AIDS deaths at lowest level in over 30 years. 🌊 After decades of drought, groundwater south of the Sahara has risen.

🌳 Amazon deforestation lowest in 13 years. 🌏 Global greenhouse gas emissions have almost stopped growing. 🚗 Electric car sales rise again and set records in 50 countries.