Take Kiva. Launched in October 2005 — and named for the Swahili word for unity — this website allows anyone to lend money directly to a small busines… - Peter Diamandis

[L]ean start-ups are the small furry mammals competing with the large dinosaurs — meaning they're one asteroid strike away from world dominance. Exponential technology is that asteroid.

Fuller had put out this idea that there’s no use trying to change human nature. It’s been the same for a very long time. Instead, go after the tools. New tools make new practices. Better tools make better practices.” Out of all of this was born the Whole Earth Catalog (WEC).

In the developing world, where sanitation issues cause tremendous death and disease, this will obviously save millions and millions of lives, but in the developed world, three-quarters of our water bill is the cost of hauling away waste and running sewage treatment plants. So the goal is to solve both problems: to find a way for people to go to the bathroom that doesn’t involve running water or sewage, while still rendering human waste completely harmless.