A Meditation About the Future | Bonus Episode

In this bonus episode, Peter takes us through a journey of Abundance. A meditation about the future ensues, showing us everything that could come from the exponential technologies we’re witnessing today. You will learn about: 01:18 | What Life Was Like in 1923 05:16 | Creating a Hopeful, Compelling, and Abundant Future Peter Diamandis is a visionary entrepreneur, futurist, and philanthropist known for his groundbreaking work in space exploration, innovation, and exponential technologies. As the co-founder of the XPRIZE Foundation and executive chairman of Singularity University, he has revolutionized the way we think about incentivized competitions and the power of emerging technologies. >Become a part of my community. Learn about my executive summit, A360. >Join me on a 5-Star Platinum Longevity Trip at Abundance Platinum. _____________ I send weekly emails with the latest insights and trends on today’s and tomorrow’s exponential technologies. Stay ahead of the curve, and sign up now: Tech Blog _____________ Connect With Peter: Twitter Instagram Youtube Moonshots and Mindsets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:00Peter Diamandis?

  What's in your heart? The speed of change is coming at a lightning speed. This is the power we have now. This is our purpose, our mission. Our responsibility is to guide it, to create the desired future we want. And that's the world we can create. The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities. There is no problem we cannot solve. This is the most extraordinary time ever to be alive. And don't let anyone tell you it's not.

• 0:30Peter Diamandis?

  Hey, everybody. I want to share with you a special moment that I love doing at the end of Abundance 360 every year. This is the closing segment of A360 2023. I'm going to begin by looking back 100 years at the year 1923. What was the world like 100 years ago? What were the true innovations, the breakthroughs occurring during that calendar year? And then I'm going to take you forward, not 100 years into the future, but just 10 years into the future. So what is the world look like? A hopeful, compelling, and abundant future, just 10 years out. And as you hear this meditation about the future,

• 1:12Peter Diamandis?

  follow along, close your eyes, imagine the world that we're creating. All right, let's jump in. I want to take you on two time journeys.

• 1:25Peter Diamandis?

  I don't think there's any way in the world for us to really appreciate what's going on today until we look back 100 years. So we're going to go back to the year 1923.

• 1:43Peter Diamandis?

  So in 1923, there were 13 million cars on the road. There's about 300 million today. Gas was at 14 cents. The Ford Model T cost a whopping 290 bucks. A first-class stamp, 2 cents.

• 2:00Peter Diamandis?

  40% of homes had electricity, and 35% had a telephone.

• 2:09Peter Diamandis?

  1923, the world population was 2 billion. Today, we're just cracking 8 billion. Life expectancy for men at 56, women at 58. Women led the world back then, they still do today. Let's go and hit some of the front page news from the world in 1923. The tomb of King Tut was opened for the first time. Babe Ruth homered for the first time in Yankee Stadium. The Hollywood Land sign came online.

• 2:51Peter Diamandis?

  The word "land" was eliminated some 1949, so just Hollywood sign. Time Magazine came online 100 years ago. So, the part that really gets me to understand the extraordinary world we're living in today is looking at the innovations from 100 years ago. But before we do that, I want to remind you what the innovations were in 1922. And myself and my team, we scrub, looking for every breakthrough and innovation. Back in 1922, there were six. The water skis were invented, the convertible manual hardtop, the electric blender, Vegemite,

• 3:35Peter Diamandis?

  the Eskimo pie, and vitamin E was discovered. Just six. In 1923, a year later, we doubled. It's gonna start getting harder. So, let's look at the 12. Schick invents the first electric shaver. Remember, in these years, everything manual was being electrified. Just like today, everything that didn't have AI, AI is being added. Clarence Byrdsey invented frozen food in 1923, a big innovation. Sound on film, phonograph film was invented. Zwarkin invented the television in 1923.

• 4:19Peter Diamandis?

  Firestone unveiled the first production balloon tire. And Garrett Morgan patented the three-position traffic signal with a yellow light.

• 4:31Peter Diamandis?

  Insulin entered mass production in 1923. The neon light was brought to the US from Paris just to make it a little more lively in our towns. Number nine Calvin Coolidge gave the first national address on broadcast radio just a hundred years ago. Number 10, stable flight from a rotorcraft. And number 11, Herbert Dorsey invents the first practical pedometer determining ocean depth. And as a pilot, I love this one. Airway beacons replace bonfires to guide flying pilots.

• 5:12Peter Diamandis?

  All right, what I'd like you to do, if you could, is please stand. I'm gonna take you in another time journey. But this time, not into the past, this time into the future. This time, not a hundred years, but just 10 years to the year 2033. If you'd close your eyes for me now, I'm gonna read you 10 headlines. They're headlines predicted by the faculty on stage. I want you to think about them. Do they seem crazy?

• 5:54Peter Diamandis?

  Or something that might be happening and you might be part of? The first headline is the dream of Sal Khan. Generative AI enables the highest level personalized tutoring for every child on the planet for free in their native language. Headline two, the dream of Tonya Robbins. Humanity's second green revolution is now in full swing. AI and biotech have converged to bring food security to 2 billion hungry souls. We're feeding the world. Headline number three, the dream of Jacqueline Novogratz.

• 6:35Peter Diamandis?

  New solar and battery technologies spread like kudzu across Africa, providing every village with abundant electricity. Headline four, the dream of Jim Min. Deaths due to heart attacks plummet by tenfold as early detection saves lives on a mass scale.

• 6:59Peter Diamandis?

  Headline number five, the dream of Andrew Yang. Universal basic income has become adopted by all 40 US states. AIs and robots performing full-time equivalent human jobs are being taxed to fund the UBI program. Headline number six, the dream of Ray Kurzweil. Cloud-based AI now exceeds human intelligence. Human-level AI as a service is available to anyone on a 6G connection. Headline number seven is the dream of Regina.

• 7:39Peter Diamandis?

  Global biofoundries pump out billions of vaccines and shut down every pandemic. Headline number eight, the dream of David Sinclair. Age reversal, epigenetic reprogramming demonstrated in humans clinically reversing age by at least 20 healthy years, ushering an age of longevity escape velocity. Number nine, the dreams of Elon Musk. More than 50 million multipurpose humanoid robots are now in use. In the US, such robots have spurred significant debate in new labor laws.

• 8:19Peter Diamandis?

  And headline number 10, three companies achieve commercial-scale fusion, offering humanity an unlimited supply of energy to drive increasing standards and increasing global living. Open your eyes and look about you. These are breakthroughs that are going to drive trillion-dollar companies, trillion-dollar industries. You, here in the room, see it coming. You know it's coming.

• 8:51Peter Diamandis?

  Others will be in disbelief. Are you going to use this view of the future to drive your MTP, your moonshots, your next companies? You know, the things we talked about on the stage were not even possible a year ago. The speed of change is coming at a lightning speed. Ultimately, it's through the connections with each other, partnering to play a bigger game, to go after the grandest moonshot possible. We create the future. The future doesn't create itself. As I said when we opened, the whole purpose of creating Singularity University and Abundance 360

• 9:32Peter Diamandis?

  was to create a conversation and a community and a time where we could not just let the future happen to us, where we could steer the direction we wanted intentionally. This is the power we have now. This is our purpose, our mission. There's no velocity switch, no on/off switch, this technology. Our responsibility as leaders is to guide it, to create the desired future we want. So I invite you here now and in the year ahead, please play full out, right, as you have. Take this energy because I hope you realize you've forgotten about all the problems in the world during these last four days, right?

• 10:17Peter Diamandis?

  Haven't you? And we've been living in an amazing world, haven't we? Where there is nothing impossible. Where our future is limited only by our commitment of our passionate minds to go and transform, to go and create. So as you head home, as you head onto this stage, please bring this with you, bring this belief that there is no problem we cannot solve.

• 10:46Peter Diamandis?

  The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities. Right? This is the most extraordinary time ever to be alive. And don't let anyone tell you it's not. Do we have problems? Absolutely. Can we solve them? Can we solve them? Absolutely. The tools we have now outstrip what the robber barons, the presidents, the wealthiest people on the planet had just 10 and 20, 30 years ago. You have them as individuals. All the knowledge in the world, the computational power. So, the question is, what are you gonna do with that? What's in your heart? What are you gonna wake up with every morning? Every morning, my MTP is to inspire and guide entrepreneurs

• 11:31Peter Diamandis?

  to create a hopeful, compelling, and abundant future for humanity, to support you to create that. Because a world in which every human has a hopeful, compelling, and abundant future is a beautiful world to live in. It's a world that no one wants to go to war. It's a world where every mom and every dad has the grandest dreams for their kids. And that's the world we can create. So, I thank you. And welcome to year 11. And I'm super psyched to have you guys in here at year 12. And now, I want to hear from all of you.

• 12:15Peter Diamandis?

  So, first, give it up for yourselves. Thank you so much.