<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Optimism on NotNil Blog</title><link>https://notnil.org/en/tags/optimism/</link><description>Recent content in Optimism on NotNil Blog</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-US</language><copyright>© Matthieu Moreau</copyright><lastBuildDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://notnil.org/en/tags/optimism/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>happy 2024</title><link>https://notnil.org/en/posts/18-happy2024/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://notnil.org/en/posts/18-happy2024/</guid><description>&lt;figure&gt;&lt;img src="https://notnil.org/images/posts/happy2024/boncourage_feature.jpeg"&gt;&#10;&lt;/figure&gt;&#10;&#10;&lt;h1 id="what-do-you-mean-good-luck"&gt;What do you mean, &amp;ldquo;good luck&amp;rdquo;?&lt;/h1&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;I send you all my best wishes for 2024, and this year, it isn&amp;rsquo;t just a polite formula.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re turning the page on 2023 with the discovery of new antibiotics (the first in 60 years!) by an AI, and the announcement of a highly effective mRNA treatment for skin cancer, available as early as 2025.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Without going back over the AI tidal wave of 2023 and the countless impacts it&amp;rsquo;s going to have on our lives and societies, I think we&amp;rsquo;re entering an exponential of technological progress that should let us face the future with a feeling that (it seems to me) has disappeared, and that is missing: optimism.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>