Peter Diamandis
Peter Diamandis
Peter H. Diamandisis a Greek–American engineer, physician, and entrepreneur best known for being the founder and chairman of the X Prize Foundation, the co-founder and executive chairman of Singularity University and the co-author of the New York Times bestsellers Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think and BOLD: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World. He is also the former CEO and co-founder of the Zero Gravity Corporation, the co-founder and vice chairman of Space Adventures...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth20 May 1961
ideas pounds suvs
The idea of a young thin woman who weighs 100 pounds driving herself around in a 4,000 pound SUV is laughable.
uplifting impact literacy
If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.
government research fund
It's sad that the U.S. government doesn't fund risky research anymore.
long generations problem
Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.
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You could not legally put a human and fly them into space. In fact, you couldn't bring a spaceship back. All those spaceships we were sending commercially into space were one way. You sort of like, got rid of them. And most passengers, who go up, do want to come back down.
internet-access eight people
Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.
news bad-news sells
Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.
humanity earth way
Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.
father islands doctors
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.
technology force resources
Technology is a resource liberating force!
government trying today
Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.
technology done growing
Today, a group of 20 individuals empowered by the exponential growing technologies of AI and robotics and computers and networks and eventually nanotechnology can do what only nation states could have done before.
space libertarian economic
I became very much, if I have to describe myself, I'm sort of a Libertarian Capitalist, and I was looking for, what's the economic engine that's going to drive us into space.
materials physics science seeing
We're not seeing any breakthroughs in physics or materials science here,