Hollywood convinced generations of a dystopian future because happiness was too boring for movies.  We need better storytellers to show how our futu… - Peter Diamandis

Kodak was in the business of recording memories. And what made recording memories more convenient than a digital camera?

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."

Right now we’re enjoying first generation GE crops; soon we’ll have versions that can grow in drought conditions, in saline conditions, crops that are nutritionally fortified, that act as medicines, that increase yields and lower the use for pesticides, herbicides, and fossil fuels. The best designs will do many of these things at once. The Gates Foundation–led effort BioCassava Plus aims to take cassava, one of the world’s largest staple crops, fortify it with protein, vitamins A and E, iron, and zinc; lower its natural cyanide content, make it virus resistant, and storable for two weeks (instead of one day). By 2020, this one genetically modified crop could radically improve the health of the 250 million people for whom it is a daily meal.