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World Economic Forum’s top five threats—water crises, climate change, biodiversity loss, extreme weather, and pollution. We’ve addressed all five individually, yet they’re not individual problems.
Economic Risks: The Threat of Technological Unemployment
In recent years, major consultancies such as McKinsey, Gartner, and Deloitte have all issued reports saying technological unemployment is unavoidable.
47 percent of all US jobs are threatened over the next few decades,
85 percent in the rest of...
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about labor shortages, not labor surpluses.
Make no mistake, certain jobs are heading for extinction.
truckers and taxi drivers to warehouse workers and retail employees.
autonomous vehicles will claim three hundred thousand driving jobs a year.
The ability to rapidly retrain our workforce to fill those jobs—that’s the challenge we have yet to meet.
Existential Risks: Vision, Prevention, and Governance
Exponential technology, in his opinion, had a bad habit of becoming existential risk.
Nanotech run rampant—aka, Eric Drexler’s “grey goo”—is one familiar example. Another is a pissed off AI waking up, hacking NORAD, and going DEFCON 666 on the entire world. There’s also genetically modified organisms overrunning ecosystems, cyberterrorists playing good night New York with the power grid, or biohackers playing goodbye San Francisco with weaponized Ebola. These are the horrors that go bump in the expo-tech night. And this is Bostrum’s dark point: We’re in for a bumpy ride.
Vision
when a desire for freedom from tyranny went hand in hand with a desire for stability.
Estonia has become a pioneer of e-governance,
Estonia, 99 percent of all public services are online, with user-friendly interfaces.
Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs, for instance, is collaborating with the Canadian government on Quayside.
First, technological empowerment.
artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, biotechnology—are
crosses
200 million people by 2050.
By the numbers, the 12 million Africans uprooted by the slave trade, the 18 million people rerouted by the division of India and Pakistan, and the 20 million rearranged on Europe’s chessboard in the years following World War II were history’s three biggest forced relocations. Each was propelled by a familiar driver: economics (and depersonalization), religion, and politics, respectively. Each reshuffled the world. Yet their combined impact will soon be dwarfed by a new exodus, the first to be triggered solely by technology.
In 2005, the BBC reported that a South Korean man died after spending fifty consecutive hours playing an online video game.
There’s also norepinephrine, endorphins, serotonin, anandamide, and oxytocin to consider.
Yet 321 million Americans already spend eleven hours a day online, and VR’s neurochemical cocktail will definitely increase that figure.
Blue Origin,
committing a billion dollars a year to the project.
Elon Musk and Bryan Johnson, who have both created companies, Neuralink and Kernel respectively, to speed development along. But everyone from Facebook to DARPA has gotten involved.
wants neurotech that allows you to think instead of type, replacing the keyboard with the mind as the ultimate social media interface. DARPA sees
BCIs as a next-generation battlefield technology, and wants one that can record 1 million neurons simultaneously whil...
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BCIs have allowed paraplegics to walk again. Stroke victims, paralyzed for years, are regaining the use of their limbs. Epileptics have been cured of seizures. Quadriplegics can now control cursors with their mind. And, piling atop Dracula, flying cars, and personal robots in our list of childhood fantasies turned into realities, telepathy is also now possible.
loss aversion.
then, that sense of converging exponentials meets five great migrations meets holy-shit vertigo that you might be feeling is perfectly natural. As is the trepidation, the excitement, the unlocking of imagination. We feel it too. And all we can really say is what we’ve been saying to each other along the way: Take a deep breath and don’t blink, because, ready or not, here comes tomorrow.
Abundant cheap energy leads to abundant clean water. Autonomous electric cars lead to cheaper, greener transportation options and lower-cost access to housing. The combination of AI, 5G and AR/VR will provide low-cost education, entertainment, and healthcare to nearly every human on Earth, independent of geography or socioeconomic status.
Conveniently, the poorest nations on Earth are also the sunniest and with that sun—and the ever-increasing spread of solar—comes the opportunity for abundant energy. With energy comes the power to provide clean water and with clean water comes massive increases in health and wellness, which together with increased education and lower birth rates, can help stem the tide of overpopulation.
Singularity University, Abundance360, and Abundance Digital—programs that constantly refresh participants on the state of the “exponentially possible.”
Zero-to-Dangerous: The World’s Leading Flow-Hacking Training: Zero to Dangerous is a research-backed peak-performance training designed to help entrepreneurs and leaders access the peak performance state known as flow. It is specifically focused on teaching people how to perform at speed and think at scale—which are the two keys to thriving in an exponential world. Zero to Dangerous blends cutting-edge science with one-on-one peak-performance coaching from licensed clinical psychologists and provides access to a network of high-performing individuals from across the globe. The training is led
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Abundance360: A360 is a year-long membership (curated and run by Peter Diamandis) designed to help entrepreneurs navigate exponential technological change. Each year kicks off with a three-day mastermind in Beverly Hills, where members gather to learn about the latest breakthroughs in AI, networks, robotics, 3-D printing, AR/VR, biotech, and blockchain, and how these technologies are immediately applicable in their businesses and lives. Our mission is to provide members with the information, insights, and implementation tools they need to stay ahead of the curve. Understanding how to navigate
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Abundance Digital: Abundance Digital is the digitized, demonetized, and democratized version of Abundance360. The program services more than 2,000 entrepreneurs around the world at a 10x lower cost. The Abundance Digital community is your one-stop-shop for collaborating with other abundance and exponentially minded doers from around the world—including Peter Diamandis himself. Other benefits include: Dailey Coaching and Insights from the Abundance Digital APP and 100-plus hours of video content, teachings, and coaching by Dr. Diamandis. Livestream ac...
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Monthly Webinars: Live access to ~4 monthly video webinars featuring leading CEOs and entrepreneurs. To ap...
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Singularity University: Singularity offers programs and events around the world focused on exponential-related teaching for graduate students, executives, and leaders. For a detailed list of the program offerings, go to www.SU.org.
Human Longevity Inc.’s HEALTH NUCLEUS: In this book, we mention the potential breakthroughs racing our way in the field of longevity. One of the most important tools is made possible by HLI’s Health Nucleus program, which uses the latest technological advancements to provide a new standard for personal health. By integrating full-body imaging with whole-genome sequencing, Health Nucleus CORE is the first personalized assessment to reveal a more complete picture of your past, present, and future health status. You benefit from our highly experienced team of board certified and licensed
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Singularity University, a Silicon Valley–based institution backed by Google, 3-D Systems, and NASA.
“The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders” by Fortune magazine.
peak performance.
