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Peter Diamandis: Stephen Hawking's zero g flight
Peter Diamandis despre Stephen Hawking la gravitaţie zero
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Fondatorul Premiului X, Peter Diamandis, vorbeşte despre cum l-a ajutat pe Stephen Hawking sǎ-şi îndeplineascǎ visul de a merge în spaţiu -- zburând împreunǎ pânǎ în straturile superioare ale atmosferei pentru a trǎi senzaţia de imponderabilitate în gravitaţie zero
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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Cei care mǎ cunoaşteţi ştiţi cât de pasionat sunt
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about opening the space frontier.
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de deschiderea frontierei spaţiului
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So when I had the chance to give the world's expert in gravity
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Aşa cǎ atunci cǎnd am putut sǎ ofer experienţa imponderabilitǎţii
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the experience of zero gravity, it was incredible.
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principalului expert mondial în gravitaţie, a fost incredibil
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And I want to tell you that story.
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Şi vreau sǎ vǎ spun aceastǎ poveste.
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I first met him through the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics.
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L-am cunoscut prin Premiul X Archon pentru Genomicǎ.
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It's a competition we're holding, the second X PRIZE,
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Este un concurs organizat de noi, al doilea Premiu X,
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for the first team to sequence 100 human genomes in 10 days.
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oferit primei echipe care va cartografia 100 de genomuri umane în 10 zile
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We have something called the Genome 100 --
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Avem ceva numit Genome 100
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100 individuals we're sequencing as part of that.
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100 de persoane cǎrora le cartografiem genomul.
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Craig Venter chairs that event.
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Craig Venter este preşedintele acelui eveniment.
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And I met Professor Hawking,
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Şi acolo l-am cunoscut pe profesorul Hawking,
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and he said his dream was to travel into space.
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şi mi-a zis cǎ visul lui este sǎ cǎlǎtoreascǎ în spaţiu.
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And I said, "I can't take you there,
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I-am zis cǎ nu-l pot duce acolo,
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but I can take you into weightlessness into zero-g.
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dar pot sǎ-l duc în imponderabilitate, la zero G.
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And he said, on the spot, "Absolutely, yes."
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Şi a zis pe loc cǎ este absolu de acord.
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Well, the only way to experience zero-g on Earth
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Singurul mod de a trǎi pe propria piele zero G pe Terra
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is actually with parabolic flight, weightless flight.
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este prin zbor parabolic, zbor cu imponderabilitate.
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You take an airplane, you fly over the top, you're weightless for 25 seconds.
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Iei un avion, zbori pânǎ la punctul maxim, eşti imponderabil pentru 25 de secunde
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Come back down, you weigh twice as much.
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te întorci, ai de douǎ ori greutatea normalǎ.
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You do it again and again.
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Şi faci asta de mai multe ori.
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You can get eight, 10 minutes of weightlessness --
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Poţi sǎ ai parte de 8-10 minute de imponderabilitate --
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how NASA's trained their astronauts for so long.
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aşa îşi pregǎteşte NASA astronauţii.
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We set out to do this.
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Asta am hotǎrât sǎ facem.
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It took us 11 years to become operational.
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Ne-a luat 11 ani sǎ devenim operaţionali.
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And we announced that we were going to fly Stephen Hawking.
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Şi am anunţat cǎ vom zbura cu Stephen Hawking.
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We had one government agency and one company aircraft operator say,
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O agenţie guvernamentalǎ şi un operator la o companie aerianǎ mi-au zis:
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you're crazy, don't do that, you're going kill the guy.
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Eşti nebun, nu fǎ asta, o sǎ-l omori.
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(Laughter)
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(Râsete)
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And he wanted to go.
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El a vrut sǎ meargǎ.
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We worked hard to get all the permissions.
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Am muncit din greu sǎ obţinem toate aprobǎrile.
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And six months later, we sat down at Kennedy Space Center.
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Şase luni mai târziu, ne-am dus la Centrul Spaţial Kennedy
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We had a press conference,
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Am avut o conferinţǎ de presǎ,
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we announced our intent to do one zero-g parabola,
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şi am anunţat cǎ vom face o parabolǎ de zero G --
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give him 25 seconds of zero-g.
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îi oferim 25 de secunde de imponderabilitate.
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And if it went really well, we might do three parabolas.
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Şi dacǎ toate merg bine, am putea sǎ facem trei parabole.
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Well, we asked him why he wanted to go up and do this.
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L-am întrebat, totuşi, de ce vrea sǎ facǎ asta.
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And what he said, for me, was very moving.
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Şi a zis un lucru, care, pe mine, m-a emotionat.
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He said, "Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk
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A zis: "Viaţa pe Pǎmânt este din ce în ce mai periclitatǎ"
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of being wiped out by disaster ...
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de un dezastru ce o poate distruge...
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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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Cred cǎ rasa umanǎ nu are un viitor decât dacǎ merge în spaţiu.
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I therefore want to encourage public interest in space."
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Aşadar, vreau sǎ stimulez interesul publicului pentru spaţiu."
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We took him out to the Kennedy Space Center,
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L-am dus la Centrul Spaţial Kennedy,
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up inside the NASA vehicle, into the back of the zero-g airplane.
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într-un vehicul NASA, în spatele avionului ce ne ducea la zero G.
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We had about 20 people who made donations --
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Aveam în jur de 20 de oameni care facuserǎ donaţii--
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we raised $150,000 in donations for children's charities --
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am strâns 150.000 în donaţii pentru copii --
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who flew with us.
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şi care zburau cu noi.
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A few TEDsters here.
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Câţiva TED-işti de-aici.
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We set up a whole ER.
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Am pregǎtit aparate pentru urgenţe
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We had four emergency room doctors and two nurses on board the airplane.
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Am avut patru doctori de la urgenţe şi douǎ asistente la bordul avionului
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We were monitoring his PO2 of his blood, his heart rate, his blood pressure.
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Urmǎream nivelul oxigenului în sânge, pulsul, presiunea arterialǎ...
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We had everything all set in case of an emergency;
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Aveam totul pregǎtit în caz de urgenţǎ---
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God knows, you don't want to hurt this world-renowned expert.
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Doamne fereşte sǎ rǎneşti un expert de talie mondialǎ.
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We took off from the shuttle landing facility,
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Am decolat de la baza de aterizare a navetei,
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where the shuttle takes off and lands.
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acolo unde navetele decoleazǎ şi aterizeazǎ.
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And my partner Byron Lichtenberg and I
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Şi partenerul meu -- Byron Lichtenberg -- şi cu mine
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carefully suspended him into zero-g.
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l-am ridicat cu grijǎ în zero G.
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Once he was there, [we] let him go
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Ajuns în poziţia necesarǎ, i-am dat drumul
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to experience what weightlessness was truly like.
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sǎ simtǎ pe pielea lui senzaţia imponderabilitǎţii.
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And after that first parabola, you know,
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Şi dupǎ acea primǎ parabolǎ,
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the doc said everything is great. He was smiling, and we said go.
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doctorul a zis cǎ totul e ok, el zâmbea, şi am zis sǎ-i dǎm drumul mai departe.
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So we did a second parabola.
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Am fǎcut o a doua parabolǎ.
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(Laughter)
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(Râsete)
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(Applause)
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(Aplauze)
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And a third.
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Şi o a treia.
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(Applause)
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(Aplauze)
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We actually floated an apple in homage to Sir Isaac Newton
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Am suspendat şi un mǎr în cinstea lui Sir isaac Newton
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because Professor Hawking holds the same chair at Cambridge
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deoarece profesorul Hawking ocupǎ aceeaşi catedrǎ la Cambridge
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that Isaac Newton did.
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ca şi Isaac Newton în trecut.
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And we did a fourth, and a fifth and a sixth.
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Şi am fǎcut şi a patra, a cincea şi a şasea
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(Laughter)
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(Râsete)
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And a seventh and an eighth.
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Şi o a şaptea şi a opta
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And this man does not look like a 65-year-old wheelchair-bound man.
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Şi acestǎ persoanǎ nu aratǎ ca un om la 65 ce foloseşte scaunul cu rotile.
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(Laughter)
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(Râsete)
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He was so happy.
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Era atâta de fericit.
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We are living on a precious jewel,
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Trǎim pe o piatrǎ preţioasǎ,
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and it's during our lifetime that we're moving off this planet.
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şi în timpul vieţii noastre, o sǎ începem sǎ ne mutǎm de pe ea.
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Please join us in this epic adventure.
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Vǎ rugǎm, alǎturaţi-vǎ acestei aventuri epopeice.
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Thank you so much.
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Vǎ mulţumesc mult
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(Applause)
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Aplauze
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