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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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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In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and put them up all over campus. Thirty-five people showed up. It was the first thing I ever organized, and it took off!
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Regardless of what the naysayers believe about human interaction and social media, the data show us that the abundance of technology is actually increasing the abundance of happiness all over the world.
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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 get my news from selected Google News and my social feed.
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There was a Gallup poll that said something like 70 percent of people in the United States do not enjoy their job - they work to put food on the table and get insurance to survive. So, what happens when technology can do all that work for us and allow us to actually do what we enjoy with our time?
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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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People need to understand how exponential technologies are impacting the business landscape. They need to do some future-casting and look at how industries are evolving and being transformed.
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As humans, we have evolved to compete... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition.
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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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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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If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.
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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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3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed.
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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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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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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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All of us are linear thinkers. We evolved in a world that was local and linear. You know, back 100,000, 200,000, millions of years ago, when we were evolving as a human species, nothing changed. You know, the life of your great-grandparents, you, your kids - it was the same. And so we are local and linear thinkers.
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I've stopped watching TV news. They couldn't pay me enough money.
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Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times.
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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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True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.
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It's never been easier to share your ideas and passions with the world.