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
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accessible innovation personally space
This is where innovation begins. It's all part of the samemission, which is to make space personally accessible to the public.
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For me, it's sort of a remembrance of 'Star Wars' pod racing.
billion cost dollars fuel operations percent shuttle space work
And that's what we need to do in the space world to get to that point. It's the cost of operations that makes the space shuttle cost three-quarters of a billion dollars per launch. Fuel is one percent of the cost. It's the operations that we have to work on.
episode phantom sort star
For me, it is a remembrance of sort of 'Star Wars' pod racing, ... Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace.
rate-of-change rate constant
The only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing,
gps car world
When cars have the sensory systems around them, GPS intelligence, they're looking at the world not only in visual spectrum, but infrared, ultraviolet and everything else that's going on and they've got reaction times in microseconds. Not a tenth of a second. They're a hundred thousand times faster.
internet-access eight people
Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.
materials physics science seeing
We're not seeing any breakthroughs in physics or materials science here,