The history of computers competing against humans is long, and often attracts enormous attention. But what is it good for? What does it matter if a computer can win in chess, Go, or Starcraft? We got the answer when AlphaFold solved a 50-year old grand challenge in biology.

How can you know that the future is bright? Because there is no stronger force for improvement than people's ideas - and thanks to democracy and technology, we now have access to more ideas than ever before.

Central institutions such as governments dominate the world because they have solved two problems: Lack of information and the difficulty for many people to vote all the time. Thanks to the internet, these problems are solved, and we can give more power directly to people.

Understanding the future is the most valuable knowledge there is. The prime example is Moore's Law. But there is another law with even higher accuracy that can teach us a lot about the future, not at least about electric cars.

With Moore's law you can predict what computers can do and help create the future.