Peter Diamandis: Abundance is our future
Peter Diamandis: 富足係我哋嘅未來
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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(警方用嘅胡椒噴霧。)
(遊船上嘅混亂。)
(六十五人死亡。)
(網路上嘅駭客攻擊。)
(大規模毀滅。龍捲風。)
世界末日。埃及。敘利亞。)
嘅各國平均國民所得
同快咗一千倍
每個人都享受奢華生活
鋁多數喺礦物裡邊
反應生成化合物
無人探測船航海家 1 號
同太陽系影張全家福
鹹水、污染水、廁所污水
資訊同通訊都充足嘅世界
世界上最會折疊蛋白質嘅人
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
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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.
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