Charities may give people food. But social entrepreneurs don't just teach people to grow food — they're not happy until they've taught a farmer how t… - Peter Diamandis

Uber's goal," explained Holden from the stage, "is to demonstrate flying car capability in 2020 and have aerial ridesharing fully operational in Dallas and LA by 2023." But then Holden went even further: "Ultimately, we want to make it economically irrational to own and use a car.

Your money is safer in the hands of the world's poor than in your 401(k).

The human brain evolved in an environment that was local and linear. Local, meaning most everything that we interacted with was less than a day's walk away. Linear, meaning the rate of change was exceptionally slow. Your great-great-great-grandfather's life was roughly the same as his great-great-grandson's life. But now we live in a world that is global and exponential. Global, meaning if it happens on the other side of the planet, we hear about it seconds later (and our computers hear about it only milliseconds later). Exponential, meanwhile, refers to today's blitzkrieg speed of development. Forget about the difference between generations, currently mere months can bring a revolution. Yet our brain — which hasn't really had a hardware update in two hundred thousand years — wasn't designed for this scale or speed. And if we struggle to track the growth of singular innovations, we're downright helpless in the face of converging ones. Put it this way, in