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Peter Diamandis Thought Economics

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I write this from Manchester (England) – a city which, in the late 18th century, birthed the industrial revolution with automated manufacturing of textiles. In 1795, England produced 40 million yards of cloth; 55 years later, 2.1 billion yards. During this period, the population more than trebled, and the wealth created lifted many out of poverty, and created globally important cultural and intellectual assets ranging from universities to colleges, art galleries and gardens. During this period, in 1830, Manchester unveiled the world’s first steam-passenger railway… transforming global transportation – and in 1948, The Manchester Baby became the world’s first stored-program computer, launching a computer revolution that has... By the end of this year (2020), the entire digital universe is expected to reach over 44 zetabytes (meaning we will have created 40 times more bytes of data than there are stars in... Not only is the scale of progress increasing, but the pace too.

Many of our most common daily interactions, with things like: Uber, Instagram, Snapchat, and WhatsApp didn’t exist just 15 years ago. Google is only just 20 years old, and the iPhone? Only a decade. To understand more about the exponential changes affecting our culture, economy and society; I spoke to entrepreneur, author and thought leader, Peter H. Diamandis – Founder & Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, Executive Founder of Singularity University and Co-Founder of BOLD Capital Partners. Peter was recently named by Fortune as one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders,” and is one of the world’s foremost experts on technology and change – a topic he covers in his recent...

Q: Do people really understand how fast our world is changing? [Peter Diamandis]: I don’t think people understand how fast our world is changing, it’s one of the challenges that really catches people off guard. We’ve been living through a time of constantly accelerating technological capabilities. We’re living in a world of increasing, exponentially growing computational power. Technology is always on, always available, and we’re now moving into the quantum computing era – these exponential technologies are enabling artificial intelligence, robotics, 3D printing, synthetic biology, augmented reality, blockchain and allowing these... It’s the convergence of these technologies that creates waves on top of waves of capability, which will change our world – every industry, our economy, our government, our health, our families… everything is beginning...

Peter H. Diamandis (/ˌdiːəˈmændɪs/ DEE-ə-MAN-diss; born May 20, 1961) is an American engineer, physician,[1] and entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder and chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, and the cofounder and executive chairman of Singularity University. He is also cofounder and former CEO of the Zero Gravity Corporation, cofounder and vice chairman of Space Adventures Ltd., founder and chairman of the Rocket Racing League, cofounder of the International Space University,... Diamandis was born in the Bronx, New York, to Greek immigrants.[3] At age 12, Diamandis won first place a rocket design competition.[4] After graduating from Great Neck North High School in 1979, Diamandis attended Hamilton College for his first year, then transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study biology and physics.

During his second year at MIT in 1980, he cofounded Students for the Exploration and Development of Space.[5] Diamandis graduated from MIT in 1983[6][7] and entered Harvard Medical School to pursue his MD through the Harvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. During his second year of medical school, he cofounded the Space Generation Foundation to promote projects and programs that would help the "Space Generation"—all those born since the flight of Sputnik—get off the planet.[4] In 1986, Diamandis put his medical degree on hold and returned to MIT to pursue a master's degree in aeronautics and astronautics, conducting research at NASA Johnson Space Center, the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory... at MIT, Diamandis returned to Harvard to complete his M.D.[9] “83.3% of ChatGPT users couldn't quote from essays they wrote minutes earlier.” Sources: ..

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Credits: Anna Tutova(Founder AI Crypto Minds) with Peter Diamandis(Founder XPRIZE Foundation). In this interview with Peter Diamandis, visionary futurist, serial entrepreneur, best known, as Founder of the XPRIZE Foundation, co-Founder and executive chairman of Singularity University, named by Fortune as one of the "World’s 50... Peter reflects on his frustration with the limited avenues for private space exploration in the early ’90s, leading to the creation of XPRIZE to incentivize groundbreaking endeavors. Over the years, XPRIZE has evolved to address grand challenges across various fields, from space and ocean exploration to education and healthcare. Peter emphasizes the importance of incentivizing entrepreneurs to tackle ambitious endeavors and shift focus from mundane pursuits to transformative innovations. The conversation delves into Peter’s vision for extending the healthy human lifespan and explores his thoughts on emerging technologies, including blockchain and AI.

Peter discusses his beliefs in Bitcoin as a transformative force and its potential to empower individuals. Anna Tutova: Your main baby is probably XPRIZE. Can you tell us about the inspiration behind it? Peter Diamandis: Yeah, so the XPRIZE began really from my personal frustration of wanting to get to space. And I realized that unless you are a government astronaut (this is back in the early nineties) your chance of becoming an astronaut was very low. And so, I read that Lindbergh in 1927 crossed the Atlantic to win a prize and said: «I’m going to create a prize for private spaceflight».

And it worked. It took a decade to go from the original idea to being one, but it kicked off the commercial spaceflight industry, suborbital flights and then created the regulatory regime and attracted people to the... And since then, we’ve launched about $300 million of XPRIZEs, prizes to map the ocean floor, to pull water out of the atmosphere of CO2, for teaching kids in the middle of no place... We just launched XPRIZE to detect and put out wildfires autonomously. We launched over half a $1 billion of prizes, including the $100M Carbon Removal XPRIZE, funded by Elon Musk and Musk Foundation (awarded in 2025) and the $101M Healthspan XPRIZE (announced 2023). So, it’s really about incentivizing entrepreneurs to try and take on bigger moonshots.

Tracking the future of technology and how it impacts humanity. Named by Fortune as one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders,” Peter H. Diamandis, MD, is a founder, investor, advisor, and best-selling author. Join Peter on his mission to uplift humanity through technology. Follow Peter on X - https://x.com/PeterDiamandis Recently named as one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders by Fortune Magazine, Diamandis is the Founder & Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, which leads the world in designing and operating large-scale incentive...

He is also the Executive Founder and Director of Singularity University, a global learning and innovation community using exponential technologies to tackle the world’s biggest challenges and build a better future for all. As an entrepreneur, Diamandis has started over 20 companies in the areas of longevity, space, venture capital, and education. He is also co-founder of BOLD Capital Partners, a venture fund with $250M investing in exponential technologies. Diamandis is a New York Times Bestselling author of two books: Abundance and BOLD. He earned degrees in Molecular Genetics and Aerospace Engineering from MIT and holds an M.D. from Harvard Medical School.

Peter’s favorite saying is “the best way to predict the future is to create it yourself. This presentation examines human need by category (e.g., water, food, energy, healthcare, education, communication, and freedom) and addresses how a range of powerful technologies such as synthetic biology, embedded networks and cloud computing, AI... This session also explains how the rapid growth of key exponential technologies (nano, info, bio) are empowering individuals and small companies to do what only governments were able to achieve only a few decades... Such technologies will drive a period of significant disruption and/or opportunity depending on the company's mindset. Diamandis' ultimate message is that companies cannot remain stagnant. They must evolve or they will die.

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