American - Businessman | May 20, 1961 -
The rate of innovation is a function of the total number of people connected and exchanging ideas. It has gone up as population has gone up. It's gone up as people have concentrated in cities.
Peter Diamandis
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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.
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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.
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There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.
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I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.
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Have an open mind - allow different ideas into your way of thinking.
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Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for anything in the environment that might harm us. So given a dozen news stories, we will preferentially look at the negative news.
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My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.
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My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.
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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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Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.
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I think people are dreaming big because they have the tools to dream big. I hope that people are dreaming big because it makes them feel good about their lives.
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