Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think

by Peter H. Diamandis

Yet today, even the poorest Americans have access to a telephone, television, and a flush toilet—three luxuries that even the wealthiest couldn’t imagine at the turn of the last century.

that the world’s biggest problems are also the world’s biggest business opportunities. Along

This shiny new metal was aluminum,

At the end of the nineteenth century, London was becoming uninhabitable because of the accumulation of horse manure.

underestimate the world at large. Human beings are designed to be local optimists

The amygdala is an almond-shaped sliver of the temporal lobe responsible for primal emotions like rage, hate, and fear.

Our current means of governance and its supporting regulatory structures aren’t designed for this pace.

prokaryotes.

whose ten trillion cells and seventy-six organs bespeak a level of complexity almost too great to consider.

What the kidney takes out, you just can’t filter.” So if he couldn’t recycle the water, perhaps there

was a way to make tap water clean enough for injection.

The current version can purify 1,000 liters (250 gallons) of water a day using the same amount of energy it takes to run a hair dryer.