Heredity is NOT your destiny. It accounts for only about 7% of your longevity. The other 93% is a choice between discipline and the lifestyle decisio… - Peter Diamandis

the most important telltale factor is the development of a simple and elegant user interface — a gateway of effortless interaction that plucks a technology from the hands of the geeks and deposits it with the entrepreneurs. In fact, it was exactly this kind of interface that transformed the Internet.

This difference is key. Thinking in probabilities — this business has a 60 percent chance of success — rather than deterministically — if I do A and B, then C will definitely happen — doesn’t just guard against oversimplification; it further protects against the brain’s inherent laziness.

Clay Shirky uses the term "cognitive surplus" to describe this process. He defines it as "the ability of the world's population to volunteer and to contribute and collaborate on large, sometimes global, projects." "Wikipedia took one hundred million hours of volunteer time to create," says Shirky.