Peter Diamandis

> when I think about what my next career move should be, none of the opportunities around me excite me. Look for problems to solve; problems are Goldmines. On this subject, Peter Diamandis is brilliant > https://www.diamandis.com/blog/problems-are-goldmines

If the concept of exponentially growing technologies intrigues you, I can recommend Peter Diamandis' book Abundance [1]. [1] http://www.diamandis.com/abundance/

Wow, this guy has a whole conglomerate of hype companies.[1] Things he was hyping in 2012: - Dean Kamen’s "Slingshot," a technology which can transform polluted water, salt water or even raw sewage into incredibly high-quality drinking water for less than one cent a liter. Units actually cost hundreds of thousands of dollars at first. They became somewhat cheaper, but never cost-effective. Coca-Cola bought about 150 of them so they could clean up local water for use in beverage dispensers. - Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE which promises a low-cost, handheld medical device that allows anyone to diagnose themselves better than a board certified doctor. That turned into a wearable vital signs monitor for people recovering from surgery.[3] - Dickson Despommier’s "vertical farms" Other than for very high value crops, this seems to be going nowhere. [1] https://www.diamandis.com/ [2] https://www.diamandis.com/abundance [3] https://wefunder.com/updates/114506-vitaliti-makes-a-difference-for-po…

> “This means a future of abundance. A future where there is no poverty, where people can have whatever they want in terms of goods and services.” – Elon Musk > “I think we see a path now where the world gets much more abundant and much better every year.” – Sam Altman https://www.diamandis.com/blog/elon-sam-abundance

Should it? I've always wondered if or how causative these two charts are: https://www.diamandis.com/hubfs/Diamandis_March_2017-Theme/Images/3_In… https://conscienhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2018-Obesity-Pre…

> The book Factfulness makes a pretty good case that people generally think the world is falling apart but that objectively the world is currently in better shape than any other period of history. The book, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler also makes the same point about how focusing on the negative can obscure the good that is happening in the world. https://www.diamandis.com/blog/the-world-is-still-better-than-you-thin…

Original blog post: https://www.diamandis.com/blog/false-sense-security Notable bit: > We had a group of 35 expert AV/Production team that were isolated in one corner of the office running the live Broadcast. 100% of that team wore masks throughout the production. There were NO COVID Cases amongst this group. Bottom line again: Masks Work.

Good luck building a phone outside of China. https://www.diamandis.com/blog/shenzhen-global-hardware-capital Huawei had basically cornered the 5G technology, getting all competitors out of the market, but then Trump ended it. China is buying strategically important technology companies from around the globe, like Kuka for example, and then moves the knowledge into their country. If this trend continues, eventually we'll be in the same situation again where we have to imitate China, not vice versa. It's only a few hundred years ago when China sold extremely expensive porcelain to europe and we reverse engineered porcelain manufacturing (check out Johann Friedrich Böttger).

I believe this kind of technological breakthrough is the main point of Diamandis' book Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think. That would be a liberating event -- the key would be then getting the energy technology to societies in need - mainly a technological leap frogging, like mobile phones in developing nations did. > https://www.diamandis.com/abundance

Link above leads to the homepage. This is the actual one: http://www.diamandis.com/blog/upside-of-teslas-autopilot