Pneumonia, a disease we've been able to treat for almost a century, still accounts for 19 percent of all deaths in children under five. - Peter Diamandis

Enter Light Field Lab, a California-based startup manufacturing the first-ever display technology able to generate those trillions of photons. While their initial displays are only four- by six-inches across, they're capable of projecting a holographic image two inches thick, viewable

confirmation bias is a tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions — but it can often limit our ability to take in new data and change old opinions.

It's incredible," he says, "this moaning pessimism, this knee-jerk, things-are-going-downhill reaction from people living amid luxury and security that their ancestors would have died for. The tendency to see the emptiness of every glass is pervasive. It's almost as if people cling to bad news like a comfort blanket.