Stuff goes wrong. Expect it, learn from it, fix it — that's how remarkable happens. - Peter Diamandis

This last question may seem innocuous, but think about it this way: In 2006, retail was booming. Sears was worth $14.3 billion, Target $38.2 billion, and Walmart a whopping $158 billion. Meanwhile, an upstart retailer named Amazon was at $17.5 billion. Now fast-forward a decade. What's changed? Hard times hit Main Street. By 2017, Sears had lost 94 percent of its value, ending the decade worth $0.9 billion, before promptly going out of business. Target did better, finishing up at $55 billion. Walmart did the best, going up to $243.9 billion. But Amazon? The Everything Store closed out the era worth $700 billion (today $800 billion). And it's a fairly safe bet that your life changed as a result.

today we live in a world that is global and exponential. The problem is that our brains — and thus our perceptual capabilities — were never designed to process at either this scale or this speed. Our linear mind literally cannot grok exponential progression.

If one of the definitions of abundance is the widespread availability of goods and services — such as stethoscopes and water-quality testing — then the now-networked rising billion are rapidly gaining access to many of the fundamental mechanisms of first world prosperity.