Peter Diamandis Quotes

Of course, in a future where "distributed autonomous organizations (DAOs)" will control fleets of autonomous taxis, there will soon come a point that a DAO's AI will be talking to Daimler's Sarah about that financing, leasing, and insuring. It's an AI-to-AI negotiation, no human required.

The demand for AI will never saturate. It goes pretty much to infinity. Just like electricity didn't plateau after lighting homes.. it powered elevators, refrigerators, radios, and eventually everything.

The impossible is often, almost every time, untried.

give more than you take” — which was a fancy way of saying “Share your trade secrets” — but

The best time to start was yesterday. The second-best time is now. The worst time is "when things settle down", because honestly they never do.

According to Travis Bradford, chief operating officer of the Carbon War Room and president of the Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development, solar prices are falling 5 percent to 6 percent annually, and capacity is growing at a rate of 30 percent per year. So when critics point out that solar currently accounts for 1 percent of our energy, that's linear thinking in an exponential world. Expanding today's 1 percent penetration at an annual growth of 30 percent puts us eighteen years away from meeting 100 percent of our energy needs with solar.

We all share the same biology. A longevity breakthrough in Beijing works in Portland. This is the rare race where everyone, every nation, and every person WINS!

In one of his later volumes, Earth, book XXXV, Pliny tells the story of a goldsmith who brought an unusual dinner plate to the court of Emperor Tiberius.

The plate was a stunner, made from a new metal, very light, shiny, almost as bright as silver. The goldsmith claimed he'd extracted it from plain clay, using a secret technique, the formula known only to himself and the gods. Tiberius, though, was a little concerned. The emperor was one of Rome's great generals, a warmonger who conquered most of what is now Europe and amassed a fortune of gold and silver along the way. He was also a financial expert who knew the value of his treasure would seriously decline if people suddenly had access to a shiny new metal rarer than gold. "Therefore," recounts Pliny, "instead of giving the goldsmith the regard expected, he ordered him to be beheaded."

This shiny new metal was aluminum, and that beheading marked its loss to the world for nearly two millennia. It next reappeared during the early 1800s but was still rare enough to be considered the most valuable metal in the world. Napoléon III himself threw a banquet for the king of Siam where the honored guests were given aluminum utensils, while the others had to make do with gold.

The issue, then, is that we are interpreting a global world with a system built for local landscapes. And because we've never seen it before, exponential change makes even less sense.

It's only a failure if we fail to get the learning.

Six Ds of Exponentials," or the growth cycle of exponential technologies: Digitalization, Deception, Disruption, Demonetization, Dematerialization, and Democratization

If you can’t win, change the rules.

Almost everything we call scarce is just something we have not learned to make yet. Aluminum was once more precious than gold, until we cracked how to pull it from ordinary dirt.

cultural evolution yielded the most powerful tools for cooperation the world has ever seen.

Energy provides the means to do work; education allows workers to specialize; information/communication abundance not only furthers specialization (through expanding educational opportunities), it allows specialists to exchange specialties, thus creating what economist Friedrich Hayek called catallaxy: the ever-expanding possibility generated by the division of labor.