"I'm not saying we don't have our set of problems - climate crisis, species extinction, water and energy shortage - we surely do. [But] ultimately we knock them down."
-- Peter Diamandis, Technophilanthropist
Do you grow discouraged listening and reading the news every day? Watch this 16 minute TED talk by Peter Diamandis and find out why the future, no the today, is so exciting and how it is only going to get better.
He cites the following as the key factors that will continue to solve our problems.
- Exponential Technologies- massive, ever faster developments (infinite computing, 3D printing, robotics, digital medicine, Artificial Intelligence, sensors, synthetic biology)
- The DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Innovator - Burt Rutan, Chris Anderson, etc.
- The Technophilanthropist - think Bill Gates, Jeff Skoll, Pierre Omidyar, Elon Musk
- The Rising Billion - by 2020, 3 billion more people will be on the internet, the new middle class. A bigger market but, more important, 3 billion minds we have not heard from.
He talks about the technology ready now to distill any water, salt, sewage, etc. for 3 cents a gallon, portable hand held devices that will allow people to self-diagnose illnesses anywhere in the world, etc.
Get a positive boost to your day and show it to your kids. It is a good time to be alive.
All the best,
Rick Wallace
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