Zitat des Tages von Peter Diamandis:
The Net is allowing us to turn ourselves into a giant, collective meta-intelligence. And this meta-intelligence continues to grow as more and more people come online.
Government research has to go through peer review.
The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely takes technologies pioneered by the government and turns them into cheap, reliable and robust industries. This has happened in aviation, air mail, computers, and the Internet.
It's now possible to have your body 3D-imaged from head to toe at a sub-millimeter accuracy, showing every ripple of muscle or cellulite, to allow the perfect-fitting jeans or shoes.
I think we're heading towards a world of what I call 'technological socialism.' Where technology - not the government or the state - will begin to take care of us. Technology will provide our healthcare for free. The best education in the world - for free.
My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.
I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.
We know from hard research that educated populations have lower growth rates, are more peaceful, and add to the global economy.
Not only are we working less, we're enjoying ourselves more. As we're working toward this world of abundance, we're able to increasingly enjoy leisure time.
As medical research continues and technology enables new breakthroughs, there will be a day when malaria and most all major deadly diseases are eradicated on Earth.
As of the mid-90s, over 50 percent of women have a bachelor's and master's degree, compared to about 35 percent and 30 percent, respectively, in 1920.
There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.
As sensors and networks continue to expand around the world, we'll see violence drop even further. After all, when there's a danger that your actions can be caught on tape and shown around the world, you're more responsible for your behavior.
With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data.
Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted.
In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in developing countries, the population gets five to eight years of education.
The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.
Old-style management is irrelevant.
Even a small village in the middle of Africa with a 3D printer will have access to any good it can download. The world of the 'Star Trek' replicator is not far away.
I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'
Paul Allen with Microsoft revolutionized the software industry.
A dapper Canadian in his mid-fifties, Rob McEwen bought the disparate collection of gold mining companies known as Goldcorp in 1989. A decade later, he'd unified those companies and was ready for expansion - a process he wanted to start by building a new refinery.
Today, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone - not just artists - is a photographer, and the explosion of photos taken annually proves it.
If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it's worth considering.
True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.
In 1750, 75 percent of people on the planet worked to support the top 25 percent.
As you may know, I'm the co-founder and co-chairman of an asteroid company called Planetary Resources that is backed by a group of eight billionaires to implement the bold mission of extracting resources from near-Earth asteroids.
Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so.
So while I can't tell you if bringing a child into this world is the morally-responsible to do, I can say that the future, much like the present, is going to be a whole lot better than you think.
3D printing has digitized the entire manufacturing process.
As education becomes dematerialized, demonetized and democratized, every man, woman and child on the planet will be able to reap the benefits of knowledge. We're rapidly heading toward a world of education abundance.
I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.
Make it clear up front what the aim of the company is. Stay true to your authentic vision.
The Department of Energy made an investment that failed, and it got raked over the coals for that failed investment. This is ridiculous. The fact of the matter is, the government should be making a lot of risky investments, the majority of which are likely to fail.
Nothing matters more than your health. Healthy living is priceless. What millionaire wouldn't pay dearly for an extra 10 or 20 years of healthy aging?
Incentive prizes work.