the true promise of abundance was one of creating a world of possibility: a world where everyone’s days are spent dreaming and doing, not scrapping a… - Peter Diamandis

Culture is the ability to store, exchange, and improve ideas.

dopamine, one of the brain's primary pleasure drugs. We feel dopamine as engagement, excitement, a desire to investigate and make meaning out of the world. It's released whenever we take a risk, expect a reward, or encounter novelty. Once hardwired into a reward loop — meaning, once our brain establishes a link between an activity and dopamine — the desire to get more of this chemical becomes our overarching preoccupation. Cocaine, by way of comparison, is one of the most addictive substances on Earth, yet much of what it does is flood the brain with dopamine

Cultured meat (or in-vitro meat, as some prefer) is meat grown from stem cells. The process was pioneered by NASA in the late 1990s, as the agency suspected this might be a good way to feed astronauts on long space flights.