two of the main factors that drive economic growth are the availability of money — the stockpiles we can draw upon — and the velocity of money, or th… - Peter Diamandis

The faster you move, the slower time passes, the longer you live.

We can do more in our lives now than ever before. We have access to tech that a couple of decades ago was only accessible to govt & large corporations.

In 1992, as we sought to establish our permanent terrestrial campus, we put out an RFP (request for proposals) that basically said, "Hi there, we're ISU. We have this concept for a permanent campus. We've held five summer programs in five different cities, and this is our vision for what we want to create and where we want to go. Please tell us how much cash endowment, buildings, and operational money you will give us to bring our vision to your city." Had we gotten no response at all, I would not have been surprised. But that wasn't the case. Within six months, we received seven proposals ranging from $20 million to $50 million in funding, buildings, faculty, equipment, and even the promise of accreditation. In short, everything we needed to implement the next phase of ISU.

In 2010, about a quarter of the Earth's population, 1.8 billion people, were connected to it. By 2017, penetration had reached 3.8 billion, about half the world's population.