Peter Diamandis, Founder of the XPrize Foundation and Singularity University (#045)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Peter Diamandis is a remarkable entrepreneur, and futurist, best known as the Founder & Executive Chairman of XPRIZE Foundation. His new book, written with Steven Kotler, is “The Future is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives.” Already a bestseller, it is both timely and important. In this discussion with Brian Keating, Diamandis shares his vision for technological and educational advances over the next decade and how COVID-19 has accelerated the timeline. Show notes and resources are available here. 04:49 How COVID-19 will change what the next ten years look like. 13:02 The Tricorder XPRIZE and how Star Trek inspired Diamandis. 18:19 Artificial intelligence and human intelligence need to work together. 27:03 “For the first time ever, the human race has a singular enemy.” 36:46 Should universities offer lifelong subscriptions? 45:28 Technology marches forward; make it a force for good. 50:30 Arthur C. Clarke supported Diamandis’ early pursuits. It may have taken a global pandemic for many people to understand exponential growth, but Diamandis has used it for years to explain technological advancement. Understanding Diamandis’ 6 D’s – digitization, deception, disruption, demonetization, dematerialization, and democratization – can help entrepreneurs make an impact. Diamandis is a graduate of MIT and Harvard Medical School. While still in school himself, he co-founded The International Space University which boasts multiple astronauts as alumni. He also co-founded the weightless flight company Zero G that provides training flights for NASA. He is an advisor and friend of the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UC San Diego. Diamandis and Steven Kotler have written three bestselling books together. He co-hosts the podcast Exponential Wisdom with Dan Sullivan. Buy books by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler: The Future is Faster Than You Think BOLD: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think Learn more about the Tricorder XPRIZE Listen to Peter Diamandis on a previous episode of INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Watch the documentary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	beyond into the impossible and so we started this podcast four years ago now I think it is
0:05.9	We've had visionaries thought beaters
0:08.7	Politicians Nobel Prize winners are all all different gamets and thanks to you for your long standing help for that
0:16.1	with the center. Thank you thank you. I had the pleasure of knowing Arthur
0:19.6	Clark and working with him and in visiting him in Sri Lanka a few times and some fun stories there we can get into if you like.
0:28.8	Yeah, that will be a real treat and there aren't too many friends of Arthur that I've had on the show.
0:34.3	So today the occasion that brings you here of course I love and take advantage of every
0:39.8	opportunity I can to chat with you and pick your brain about things but it's the publication with your
0:44.2	co-author Stephen Cutler of the third this doesn't show up not great unless I hold it over here
0:49.1	but the future is faster than you think.
0:52.5	So this is your third in a series of three books.
0:56.2	I believe this is the last final installment
0:58.5	of the series that began with bold way back.
1:01.8	It began with abundance.
1:03.0	Abundant. Sorry.
1:04.0	Yeah.
1:05.0	2012, right?
1:06.0	That was almost eight years ago, nine years ago.
1:08.0	There will be a fourth because we're going to re-release abundance
1:12.0	on the 10th anniversary.
1:13.2	The thesis behind abundance that the world is getting better than anyone knows.
1:17.7	And despite the COVID-19 pandemic that we're in by almost every the world has gotten better on so many and we can talk about that.
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