Peter Diamandis Quotes
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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.
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Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.
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At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions... all good things.
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The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.
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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.
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Revealing water in significant quantities on the Moon could truly be a turning point in space exploration.
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Now, we connect via Skype or Google+ Hangout and see our friends' and loved ones' faces live.
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I get my news from selected Google News and my social feed.
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After more than a decade as the editor of 'Wired' magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams - a robotics manufacturing company called 3D Robotics - to produce the autonomous flying vehicles coming out of DIY Drones.
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All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well.
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If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.
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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.
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I think about things like, 'Will my kids need a college account? Will they even go to college?' I don't know if that will be the case.
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3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed.
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At the turn of the 20th century, the disparity in literacy here in the U.S. largely came down to race. Nearly half of minorities at that time - 45 percent - were illiterate, while 94 percent of white citizens were literate.
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We're now able to 3D print in 200 different materials, from titanium to rubber, plastic, glass, ceramic, leathers, and even chocolate.
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3D printing has digitized the entire manufacturing process.
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It's never been easier to share your ideas and passions with the world.
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If the government regulates against use of drones or stem cells or artificial intelligence, all that means is that the work and the research leave the borders of that country and go someplace else.
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We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.
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Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child.
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I had started Zero-G specifically to broaden the public for access to weightlessness.
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It used to be that, in astronomy, a small team of people could look at photos of a few thousand galaxies and classify and catalog them relatively easily. But now, with a new generation of robotic telescopes scanning the skies constantly and producing millions of images, that's become next to impossible.
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Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times.