2020, nearly 3 billion people will be added to the Internet’s community. - Peter Diamandis

People think that bold projects don't get funding because of their audacity. That's not the case. They don't get funded because of a lack of measurability. Nobody wants to make a large up-front investment and wait ten years for any sign of life. But more often than not, if you can show progress along the way, smart investors will come on some pretty crazy rides.

Scarcity mindset: 'There's not enough pie for me.'
Abundance mindset: 'Let's bake more pies.'
Exponential mindset: 'Let's build a factory that demonetizes pie-making entirely.'
That's the unlock.

Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that says otherwise. Whatever information the amygdala doesn't catch, our confirmation bias — which is now biased toward confirming our eminent destruction — certainly does. Taken in total, the result is a population convinced that the end is near and there's not a damn thing to do about it.