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Peter Diamandis: Stephen Hawking's zero g flight
Peter Diamandis o Stephenu Hawkingovi ve stavu beztíže
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Zakladatel X Prize Peter Diamandis hovoří o tom, jak pomohl Stephenu Hawkingovi splnit jeho sen vycestovat do vesmíru, a to tak, že spolu letěli do horní vrstvy zemské atmosféry a zažili pocit beztíže při nulové gravitaci.
Peter Diamandis - Space activist
Peter Diamandis runs the X Prize Foundation, which offers large cash incentive prizes to inventors who can solve grand challenges like space flight, low-cost mobile medical diagnostics and oil spill cleanup. He is the chair of Singularity University, which teaches executives and grad students about exponentially growing technologies. Full bio
Peter Diamandis runs the X Prize Foundation, which offers large cash incentive prizes to inventors who can solve grand challenges like space flight, low-cost mobile medical diagnostics and oil spill cleanup. He is the chair of Singularity University, which teaches executives and grad students about exponentially growing technologies. Full bio
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Those of you who know me know how passionate I am
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Ti z vás, kteří mě znají, vědí, jak nadšený jsem
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about opening the space frontier.
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ohledně překonávání hranic vesmíru.
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So when I had the chance to give the world's expert in gravity
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A tak když jsem měl tu šanci umožnit přednímu světovému expertovi na gravitaci
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the experience of zero gravity, it was incredible.
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vyzkoušet si nulovou gravitaci, bylo to úžasné.
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And I want to tell you that story.
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A ten příběh vám chci teď říct.
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I first met him through the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics.
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Poprvé jsem jej poznal skrze Archon X PRIZE for Genomics.
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It's a competition we're holding, the second X PRIZE,
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To je soutěž, kterou pořádáme, už druhá X PRIZE,
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for the first team to sequence 100 human genomes in 10 days.
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pro tým, který jako první sekvenuje 100 lidských genomů za 10 dní.
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We have something called the Genome 100 --
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Pořádáme tzv. Genome 100,
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100 individuals we're sequencing as part of that.
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kde se sekvenuje 100 jednotlivců.
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Craig Venter chairs that event.
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Craig Venter tomu předsedá.
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And I met Professor Hawking,
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A když jsem se s profesorem Hawkingem setkal,
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and he said his dream was to travel into space.
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řekl mi, že jeho sen je podívat se do vesmíru.
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And I said, "I can't take you there,
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A já řekl: „Tam vás vzít nemůžu,
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but I can take you into weightlessness into zero-g.
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ale můžu vás vzít do stavu beztíže, do nulové gravitace.”
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And he said, on the spot, "Absolutely, yes."
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A on na to bez přemýšlení: „Beru, hned!“
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Well, the only way to experience zero-g on Earth
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Jediný způsob, jak zažít stav nulovou gravitaci na Zemi,
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is actually with parabolic flight, weightless flight.
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je parabolický, beztižný let.
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You take an airplane, you fly over the top, you're weightless for 25 seconds.
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Vezmete letadlo, přeletíte vršek paraboly, kde jste na 25 vteřin ve stavu beztíže.
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Come back down, you weigh twice as much.
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Potom zpátky dolu, to vážíte dvakrát tolik.
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You do it again and again.
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A to děláte znovu a znovu.
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You can get eight, 10 minutes of weightlessness --
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Můžete tak dostat osm, deset minut stavu beztíže –
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how NASA's trained their astronauts for so long.
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NASA takhle trénuje své astronauty už dlouho.
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We set out to do this.
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A tak jsme na tom začali dělat.
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It took us 11 years to become operational.
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Trvalo nám 11 let, než jsme byli připraveni.
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And we announced that we were going to fly Stephen Hawking.
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Oznámili jsme, že poletíme se Stephenem Hawkingem.
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We had one government agency and one company aircraft operator say,
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A v tom se ozvaly jeden vládní úřad a jedná letecká společnost:
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you're crazy, don't do that, you're going kill the guy.
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„Jste blázni, nedělejte to. Vždyť ho zabijete!“
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(Laughter)
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(smích)
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And he wanted to go.
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A on chtěl letět.
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We worked hard to get all the permissions.
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Pracovali jsme tvrdě na všech povoleních.
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And six months later, we sat down at Kennedy Space Center.
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A o šest měsíců později jsme se sešli v Kennedyho vesmírném středisku.
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We had a press conference,
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Měli jsme tiskovou konferenci,
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we announced our intent to do one zero-g parabola,
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oznámili jsme náš záměr provést jednu zero-g parabolu,
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give him 25 seconds of zero-g.
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věnovat mu tak 25 vteřin stavu beztíže.
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And if it went really well, we might do three parabolas.
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A pokud by to šlo opravdu dobře, mohli bychom udělat tři paraboly.
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Well, we asked him why he wanted to go up and do this.
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Zeptali jsme se ho, proč chce letět, proč do toho jde.
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And what he said, for me, was very moving.
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A to, co odpověděl, bylo, pro mě, velmi dojemné.
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He said, "Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk
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Řekl: „Život na Zemi je ve stále větším nebezpečí,
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of being wiped out by disaster ...
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že bude smeten pohromou...
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I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space.
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Myslím, že lidská rasa nemá budoucnost, pokud nevycestuje do vesmíru.
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I therefore want to encourage public interest in space."
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A proto chci povzbudit veřejný zájem o vesmír.“
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We took him out to the Kennedy Space Center,
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Vzali jsme jej do Kennedyho vesmírného střediska,
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up inside the NASA vehicle, into the back of the zero-g airplane.
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do NASA vozidla a dozadu do zero-g letadla.
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We had about 20 people who made donations --
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Měli jsme tam 20 lidí, kteří finančně přispěli –
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we raised $150,000 in donations for children's charities --
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vybrali jsme 150 000 $ pro dětské charity –
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who flew with us.
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kteří letěli s námi.
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A few TEDsters here.
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Tady několik TEDstrů.
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We set up a whole ER.
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Vystavěli jsme tam celou pohovost.
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We had four emergency room doctors and two nurses on board the airplane.
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V letadle byli čtyři doktoři a dvě sestřičky.
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We were monitoring his PO2 of his blood, his heart rate, his blood pressure.
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Sledovali jsme okysličenost jeho krve, srdeční tep, krevní tlak.
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We had everything all set in case of an emergency;
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Vše bylo připraveno pro nouzovou situaci;
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God knows, you don't want to hurt this world-renowned expert.
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Bůh ví, že nechcete ublížit tomuto světově uznávanému odborníkovi.
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We took off from the shuttle landing facility,
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Vzlétli jsme z areálu raketoplánu,
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where the shuttle takes off and lands.
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kde raketoplány vzlétávají a přistávají.
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And my partner Byron Lichtenberg and I
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Můj kolega Byron Lichtenberg a já
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carefully suspended him into zero-g.
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jsme ho opatrně připravili na nulovou gravitaci.
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Once he was there, [we] let him go
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Jakmile tam byl, nechali jsme ho
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to experience what weightlessness was truly like.
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si vyzkoušet jaké to opravu je být ve stavu beztíže.
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And after that first parabola, you know,
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A po první parabole...
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the doc said everything is great. He was smiling, and we said go.
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doktor řekl, že vše je v pořádku. Profesor se smál a my řekli: do toho.
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So we did a second parabola.
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A tak jsme udělali druhou parabolu.
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(Laughter)
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(smích)
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(Applause)
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And a third.
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A třetí.
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(Applause)
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We actually floated an apple in homage to Sir Isaac Newton
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Také jsme vypustili jablko jako poctu Siru Issacu Newtonovi,
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because Professor Hawking holds the same chair at Cambridge
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protože profesor Hawking zastává stejnou pozici na univerzitě v Camridge,
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that Isaac Newton did.
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kterou míval Issac Newton.
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And we did a fourth, and a fifth and a sixth.
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A udělali jsme čtvrtou parabolu, a pátou a šestou.
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(Laughter)
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(smích)
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And a seventh and an eighth.
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A sedmou a osmou.
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And this man does not look like a 65-year-old wheelchair-bound man.
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Tady nevypadá jako 65 letý můž připoutaný na kolečkové křeslo.
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(Laughter)
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(smích)
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He was so happy.
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Byl tak šťastný.
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We are living on a precious jewel,
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Žijeme na vzácném drahokamu,
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and it's during our lifetime that we're moving off this planet.
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a je to během naší generace, že se z naší planety stěhujeme.
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Please join us in this epic adventure.
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Prosím, připojte se k nám v tomto úžasném dobrodružství.
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Thank you so much.
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Děkuju moc.
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(Applause)
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Peter Diamandis - Space activistPeter Diamandis runs the X Prize Foundation, which offers large cash incentive prizes to inventors who can solve grand challenges like space flight, low-cost mobile medical diagnostics and oil spill cleanup. He is the chair of Singularity University, which teaches executives and grad students about exponentially growing technologies.
Why you should listen
Watch the live onstage debate with Paul Gilding that followed Peter Diamandis' 2012 TEDTalk >>
Peter Diamandis is the founder and chair of the X Prize Foundation, a nonprofit whose mission is simply "to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity." By offering a big cash prize for a specific accomplishment, the X Prize stimulates competition and excitement around some of the planet's most important goals. Diamandis is also co-founder and chairman of Singularity University which runs Exponential Technologies Executive and Graduate Student Programs.
Diamandis' background is in space exploration -- before the X Prize, he ran a company that studied low-cost launching technologies and Zero-G which offers the public the chance to train like an astronaut and experience weightlessness. But though the X Prize's first $10 million went to a space-themed challenge, Diamandis' goal now is to extend the prize into health care, social policy, education and many other fields that could use a dose of competitive innovation.
Peter Diamandis | Speaker | TED.com