Over the past 150,000 years, Homo sapiens evolved in a world that was “local and linear,” but today’s environment is “global and exponential. - Peter Diamandis

In 2009, the number of devices connected to the internet exceeded the number of people on the planet (12.5 billion devices, 6.8 billion people, or 1.84 connected devices per person).

Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that says otherwise. Whatever information the amygdala doesn’t catch, our confirmation bias — which is now biased toward confirming our eminent destruction — certainly does. Taken in total, the result is a population convinced that the end is near and there’s not a damn thing to do about it.

Take Human Longevity Inc. (HLI), one of the companies Peter cofounded. HLI offers a service called "Health Nucleus," an annual, three-hour health scan consisting of whole genome sequencing, whole body MRI, heart and lung CT, electrocardiogram, echocardiogram, and a slew of clinical blood tests — essentially the most complete picture of health currently available.