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One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images.
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Never tolerate a toxic person in your organization.
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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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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.
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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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Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.
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My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a 'crowd' accomplish? We know crowds can raise billions of dollars, create Wikipedia, and even design and build small autonomous drones. But how about something large and complex like designing a new car, and maybe someday even a spaceship?
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In the early '90s, well under 5 percent of the global population was online.
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If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.
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I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.
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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.
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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.
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Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that says otherwise.
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Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'
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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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Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation. In my first conversation with him I learned that he was passionate about flying into space someday.
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Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.
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Elon Musk with PayPal revolutionized banking.
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If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it's worth considering.
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Since the age of 6, I've always wanted to go to space.
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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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In the 1960s, 110 countries had averages of six or more children per family.
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I've stopped watching TV news. They couldn't pay me enough money.
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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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