The Future Is Faster Than You Think Quotes

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― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“Group flow is a team performing at its very best: an incredible brainstorming session, a fantastic fourth-quarter comeback, a band coming together and blowing the roof off the auditorium. It’s also considered the most pleasurable state on Earth”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“dopamine, one of the brain’s primary pleasure drugs. We feel dopamine as engagement, excitement, a desire to investigate and make meaning out of the world. It’s released whenever we take a risk, expect a reward, or encounter novelty. Once hardwired into a reward loop—meaning, once our brain establishes a link between an activity and dopamine—the desire to get more of this chemical becomes our overarching preoccupation. Cocaine, by way of comparison, is one of the most addictive substances on Earth, yet much of what it does is flood the brain with dopamine”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“two of the main factors that drive economic growth are the availability of money—the stockpiles we can draw upon—and the velocity of money, or the speed and ease with which we can move that money around.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“upside will be cheaper insurance for healthier living, the downside is Big Brother”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“industrialized educational system designed to produce a standardized product. Heralded by the bell, students moved from one “learning station” to the next, while standardized tests ensured quality control—young minds well prepared for the needs of society. What were those needs? Back then, obedient factory workers.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“FQ—the frictionless quotient—in our frictionless shopping adventure.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“convergence of communications, energy, and transportation”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“Transformation Economy, where you’re not just paying for an experience, you’re paying to have your life transformed by this experience.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“Renewables, according to a 2019 report by the International Renewable Energy Agency, now account for one-third of the world’s power, and their cost has dropped below coal”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“Nothing accelerates technological development like money. More bucks, more Buck Rogers. More cash means more people experimenting, failing, and, eventually, driving breakthroughs. And this brings us to our next force: an unprecedented rise in the availability of capital.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“3-D printing removes months and months from product fabrication, building construction”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“by allowing us to test new compounds inside a computer rather than a laboratory, AI collapses discovery times from years to weeks.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“anything that can be measured will be measured, constantly.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“Six Ds of Exponentials,” or the growth cycle of exponential technologies: Digitalization, Deception, Disruption, Demonetization, Dematerialization, and Democratization”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“growth of both solar power and electric cars, there’s now a bigger need for better energy storage systems, resulting in a next generation of lithium-ion batteries with increased range, and, as an added bonus, enough power to lift flying cars.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“once a technology becomes digital—that is, once it can be programmed in the ones and zeroes of computer code—it hops on the back of Moore’s Law and begins accelerating exponentially.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“How many of us die before we’re done?”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“Computers run our world and algorithms run computers, which begs the question: Where do algorithms come from? Fear of poetry, that’s where. Fear of the maddening influence of poetry.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“This is why, according to Yale’s Richard Foster, 40 percent of today’s Fortune 500 companies will be gone in ten years, replaced,”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“In the next century, planet earth will don an electric skin.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“Every time a technology goes exponential, we find an internet-sized opportunity tucked inside. Think about the internet itself. While it seemingly decimated industries—music, media, retail, travel, and taxis—a study by McKinsey Global Research found the net created 2.6 new jobs for each one it extinguished.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“Enter Light Field Lab, a California-based startup manufacturing the first-ever display technology able to generate those trillions of photons. While their initial displays are only four- by six-inches across, they’re capable of projecting a holographic image two inches thick, viewable”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“Martine Rothblatt”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“MIT professor of urban planning Eran Ben-Joseph”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“So, while we will see a future in which the rich may be living on Mars and accessing the latest in longevity treatments, this goes hand-in-hand with a future where everyone on Earth has increasingly low-cost access to food, energy, water, education, healthcare, and entertainment.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“So yes, the threats we face might seem dire, but the solutions we already possess will only continue to increase in power.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“In a few years, humans will become the first animals that get their protein from other animals without any animals being harmed along the way.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“Uber’s goal,” explained Holden from the stage, “is to demonstrate flying car capability in 2020 and have aerial ridesharing fully operational in Dallas and LA by 2023.” But then Holden went even further: “Ultimately, we want to make it economically irrational to own and use a car.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“Passive media means information flows in only one direction. It’s traditional newspapers, magazines, television, movies, and this book. Active is the opposite. It means the information flows both ways, and finally, the user gets to have their say.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives