the value of the ecosystems services our environment now provides (for free) has been calculated at $36 trillion a year — a figure roughly equal to t… - Peter Diamandis

The entrepreneurs who win the next decade won't be the ones with the most capital. They'll be the ones who understand exponential curves before everyone else. That's the only asymmetric advantage left.

small groups of dedicated DIY innovators can now tackle problems that were once solely the purview of big governments and large corporations.

Demonstrating great ideas involves a considerable amount of risk. There will always be naysayers. People will resist breakthrough ideas until the moment they’re accepted as the new norm. Since the road to abundance requires significant innovation, it also requires significant tolerance for risk, for failure, and for ideas that strike most as absolute nonsense. As Burt Rutan puts it, “Revolutionary ideas come from nonsense. If an idea is truly a breakthrough, then the day before it was discovered, it must have been considered crazy or nonsense or both — otherwise it wouldn’t be a breakthrough.