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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.

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.

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Peter Diamandis: Stephen Hawking's zero g flight

Peter Diamandis fala sobre Stephen Hawking na gravidade zero

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O fundador do Prêmio X, Peter Diamandis, conta sobre como ajudou Stephen Hawking a realizar seu sonho de ir ao espaço -- voando juntos para o alto da atmosfera e experimentando a ausência de peso na gravidade zero.
- 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

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Those of you who know me know how passionate I am
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Vocês que me conhecem, sabem o quanto sou apaixonado
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about opening the space frontier.
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em abrir as fronteiras do espaço.
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So when I had the chance to give the world's expert in gravity
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Por isso quando eu tive a chance de proporcionar ao maior expert em gravidade do mundo
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the experience of zero gravity, it was incredible.
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a experiência da gravidade zero, foi incrível.
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And I want to tell you that story.
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E eu gostaria de contar essa história a vocês.
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I first met him through the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics.
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Eu o encontrei pela primeira vez através do Prêmio X da Archon para Genômica.
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It's a competition we're holding, the second X PRIZE,
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É uma competição que estamos promovendo, o segundo Prêmio X
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for the first team to sequence 100 human genomes in 10 days.
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para a primeira equipe que conseguir sequenciar 100 genomas humanos em 10 dias.
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We have something called the Genome 100 --
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Nós chamamos de Genoma 100,
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100 individuals we're sequencing as part of that.
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os 100 indivíduos que estamos sequenciando como parte disso.
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Craig Venter chairs that event.
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Craig Venter é quem promove este evento.
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And I met Professor Hawking,
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E eu encontrei o Professor Hawking,
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and he said his dream was to travel into space.
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e ele me disse que o seu sonho era viajar no espaço.
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And I said, "I can't take you there,
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E eu lhe disse, "Eu não posso te levar até o espaço,
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but I can take you into weightlessness into zero-g.
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mas posso fazer com que experimente a gravidade zero.
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And he said, on the spot, "Absolutely, yes."
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Ele ele disse na mesma hora, claro que sim.
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Well, the only way to experience zero-g on Earth
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Bom, a única maneira de experimentar a gravidade zero estando na Terra
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is actually with parabolic flight, weightless flight.
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é através de um vôo em parábola, um vôo "sem peso".
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You take an airplane, you fly over the top, you're weightless for 25 seconds.
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Você pega um avião, vai até o ponto mais alto, e fica sem peso por 25 segundos,
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Come back down, you weigh twice as much.
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volta para o ponto mais baixo e pesa o dobro.
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You do it again and again.
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Você faz isso várias vezes.
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You can get eight, 10 minutes of weightlessness --
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Você pode ficar sem peso de 8 a 10 minutos --
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how NASA's trained their astronauts for so long.
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É assim que a NASA tem treinado seus astronautas por todo o tempo.
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We set out to do this.
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Nosso objetivo era este.
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It took us 11 years to become operational.
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E levou 11 anos para que se tornasse operacional.
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And we announced that we were going to fly Stephen Hawking.
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E nós anunciamos que nós estaríamos levando Stephen Hawking num vôo.
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We had one government agency and one company aircraft operator say,
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Uma agência governamental e uma oeradora de companhia aérea nos disse:
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you're crazy, don't do that, you're going kill the guy.
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Vocês são loucos, não façam isso, vocês vão matar o cara.
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(Laughter)
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(Risos)
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And he wanted to go.
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E ele quis ir.
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We worked hard to get all the permissions.
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Nós trabalhamos duro para conseguir todas as permissões.
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And six months later, we sat down at Kennedy Space Center.
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E seis meses depois, nós estávamos sentados no Centro Espacial Kennedy.
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We had a press conference,
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Nós tivemos uma conferência com a imprenssa,
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we announced our intent to do one zero-g parabola,
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E anunciamos nosso intuito de fazer uma parábola de gravidade zero --
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give him 25 seconds of zero-g.
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dando a ele 25 segundos de gravidade zero.
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And if it went really well, we might do three parabolas.
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E se tudo corresse bem, poderíamos fazer até três parábolas.
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Well, we asked him why he wanted to go up and do this.
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Bem, então perguntamos a ele porquê ele estava disposto a fazer aquilo.
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And what he said, for me, was very moving.
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E o que ele disse, para mim, foi muito emocionante.
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He said, "Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk
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Ele disse, "A Vida na Terra está correndo um risco cada vez maior
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of being wiped out by disaster ...
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de ser varrida por um desastre...
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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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Eu penso que a raça humana não tem futuro se não for para o espaço.
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I therefore want to encourage public interest in space."
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Por isso eu quero incentivar o interesse das pessoas no espaço."
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We took him out to the Kennedy Space Center,
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Nós o levamos para o Centro Espacial Kennedy,
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up inside the NASA vehicle, into the back of the zero-g airplane.
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dentro do veículo da NASA, e o embarcamos na parte de trás do avião de gravidade zero.
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We had about 20 people who made donations --
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Cerca de 20 pessoas fizeram doações --
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we raised $150,000 in donations for children's charities --
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Nós conseguimos arrecadar 150.000 em doações para instituições de caridade infantis --
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who flew with us.
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que voaram conosco.
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A few TEDsters here.
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Alguns TEDsters aqui.
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We set up a whole ER.
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Nós montamos uma sala de emergência.
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We had four emergency room doctors and two nurses on board the airplane.
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E trouxemos à bordo conosco dois médicos e duas enfermeiras
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We were monitoring his PO2 of his blood, his heart rate, his blood pressure.
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Nós estávamos monitorando o PO2 de seu sangue, seus batimentos e pressão sanguínea.
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We had everything all set in case of an emergency;
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Tudo estava pronto para o caso de uma emergência --
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God knows, you don't want to hurt this world-renowned expert.
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Deus sabe, você não vai querer causar nenhum mal a um expert de fama mundial.
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We took off from the shuttle landing facility,
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Nós decolamos das instalações de uma base de lançamento,
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where the shuttle takes off and lands.
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de onde os foguetes decolam e aterrisam.
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And my partner Byron Lichtenberg and I
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E meu companheiro -- Byron Lichtenberg -- e eu
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carefully suspended him into zero-g.
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cuidadosamente o levamos para a gravidade zero.
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Once he was there, [we] let him go
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E então, deixamos que ele
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to experience what weightlessness was truly like.
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sentisse como era realmente estar sem peso.
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And after that first parabola, you know,
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E depois da primeira parábola, você sabe,
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the doc said everything is great. He was smiling, and we said go.
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o médico disse que estava tudo perfeito, ele estava sorrindo, então dissemos, podemos ir.
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So we did a second parabola.
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Então fizemos uma segunda parábola.
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(Laughter)
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(Risos)
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(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
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And a third.
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E uma terceira.
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(Applause)
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We actually floated an apple in homage to Sir Isaac Newton
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Agora flutuamos uma maçã em homenagem a Sir Isaac Newton
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because Professor Hawking holds the same chair at Cambridge
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porque o Professor Hawking ocupa a mesma cadeira em Cambridge
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that Isaac Newton did.
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que foi de Isaac Newton.
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And we did a fourth, and a fifth and a sixth.
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Então fizemos a quarta, a quinta e a sexta.
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(Laughter)
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(Risos)
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And a seventh and an eighth.
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E a sétima e a oitava.
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And this man does not look like a 65-year-old wheelchair-bound man.
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E este homem não parece uma pessoa de 65 anos preso a uma cadeira de rodas.
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(Laughter)
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(Risos)
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He was so happy.
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Ele estava tão feliz.
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We are living on a precious jewel,
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Nós vivemos numa jóia preciosa,
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and it's during our lifetime that we're moving off this planet.
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e será no tempo de nossas vidas que iremos para além do nosso planeta.
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Please join us in this epic adventure.
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Queira juntar-se a nós nesta aventura épica.
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Thank you so much.
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Muito obrigado.
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(Applause)
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Translated by Marcelo Silva
Reviewed by Gustavo Amorim

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
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.

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.

More profile about the speaker
Peter Diamandis | Speaker | TED.com