The Future Is Faster Than You Think Quotes

“This is why, according to Yale’s Richard Foster, 40 percent of today’s Fortune 500 companies will be gone in ten years, replaced, for the most part, by upstarts we’ve not yet heard of.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

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

“This last question may seem innocuous, but think about it this way: In 2006, retail was booming. Sears was worth $14.3 billion, Target $38.2 billion, and Walmart a whopping $158 billion. Meanwhile, an upstart retailer named Amazon was at $17.5 billion. Now fast-forward a decade. What’s changed? Hard times hit Main Street. By 2017, Sears had lost 94 percent of its value, ending the decade worth $0.9 billion, before promptly going out of business. Target did better, finishing up at $55 billion. Walmart did the best, going up to $243.9 billion. But Amazon? The Everything Store closed out the era worth $700 billion (today $800 billion). And it’s a fairly safe bet that your life changed as a result.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“Eight months later, on July 20, the anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, Musk tweeted again: “Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins.” In the spring of 2018, with $113 million of Musk’s own money, the Boring Company began boring.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“Already, over 10 percent of millennials have opted for ridesharing over car ownership, but this is just the beginning. Autonomous cars will be four to five times cheaper—they make owning a car not only unnecessary, but also expensive. My guess, within ten years, you’ll probably need a special permit to drive a human-operated car.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“To compete with Waymo, General Motors is making up for lost time with big dollars. In 2018, it poured $1.1 billion into GM Cruise, its self-driving division.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“About ten years later, in March 2018, Waymo purchased that fleet, buying twenty thousand sporty, self-driving Jaguars for its forthcoming ride-hailing service. With this many cars, Waymo intends to deliver a million trips per day in 2020 (this might be ambitious but Uber currently delivers 15 million rides a day).”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“The first bespoke cars hit the roads around the tail end of the nineteenth century, but Ford’s 1908 introduction of the mass-produced Model T marked the real tipping point. Just four years later, New York traffic surveys counted more cars than horses on the road.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“These electric engines are 95 percent efficient compared to gasoline’s 28 percent.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

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

“By mid-2019, over $1 billion had been invested in at least twenty-five different flying car companies. A dozen vehicles are currently being test-flown, while another dozen are at stages ranging from PowerPoint to prototype”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives