You might hear people decry the loss of privacy in today's world, but radical transparency is dramatically reducing violence everywhere. Most violent things happen in the dark when no one's watching, whether it's an oppressive dictator or someone causing violence in the inner city.
The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.
In 1976, Kodak's first digital camera shot at 0.1 megapixels, weighed 3.75 pounds, and cost over $10,000.
The reason we care so much about what happens to the likes of Lady Gaga is not because her shenanigans will ever impact our lives; rather because our brain doesn't realize there's a difference between rock stars we know about and relatives we know.
Large-scale philanthropy, based in the private - not the public - sector, is a relatively recent historical development.
Not only are we working less, we're enjoying ourselves more. As we're working toward this world of abundance, we're able to increasingly enjoy leisure time.
3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed.
I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.
Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times.
It's easy to forget that for centuries - for millennia - the 'workforce' was all of us.
Nothing matters more than your health. Healthy living is priceless. What millionaire wouldn't pay dearly for an extra 10 or 20 years of healthy aging?
The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines of space.
Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.
Future companies will be smaller and more nimble.
Government research has to go through peer review.
Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.
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?
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.
3D printing has digitized the entire manufacturing process.
Incentive prizes work.