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" Remember when vacation photos meant toting along a bulky camera? "

Peter Diamandis

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" I think we're heading towards a world of what I call 'technological socialism.' Where technology - not the government or the state - will begin to take care of us. Technology will provide our healthcare for free. The best education in the world - for free. "

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" The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people. "

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" Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation. "

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" Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for anything in the environment that might harm us. So given a dozen news stories, we will preferentially look at the negative news. "

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" Elon Musk with PayPal revolutionized banking. "

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" In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher. "

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" You might hear people decry the loss of privacy in today's world, but radical transparency is dramatically reducing violence everywhere. Most violent things happen in the dark when no one's watching, whether it's an oppressive dictator or someone causing violence in the inner city. "

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" Now, we connect via Skype or Google+ Hangout and see our friends' and loved ones' faces live. "

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" Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone. "

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" It's easy to forget that for centuries - for millennia - the 'workforce' was all of us. "

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" With sufficient water on the Moon, solar energy can be used to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen is, of course, critical for humans to breathe and the water important for us to drink. "

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" By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty. "

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" True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses. "

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" Drones watch for disease and collect real-time data on crop health and yields. "

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" It's now possible to have your body 3D-imaged from head to toe at a sub-millimeter accuracy, showing every ripple of muscle or cellulite, to allow the perfect-fitting jeans or shoes. "

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" From a scientific point of view, we now know that the water is interlaced with the lunar soil in many locations, perhaps as remnants of comet collisions with the lunar surface. "

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" So while I can't tell you if bringing a child into this world is the morally-responsible to do, I can say that the future, much like the present, is going to be a whole lot better than you think. "

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" I think people are dreaming big because they have the tools to dream big. I hope that people are dreaming big because it makes them feel good about their lives. "

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" When I was a grad student at MIT, I had a chance to become friends with the Viking Mission's chief scientist, Dr. Gerald Soffen. Viking was the first Mars lander looking for signs of life on Mars. "

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" I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it. "

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" People need to understand how exponential technologies are impacting the business landscape. They need to do some future-casting and look at how industries are evolving and being transformed. "

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" At the turn of the 20th century, the disparity in literacy here in the U.S. largely came down to race. Nearly half of minorities at that time - 45 percent - were illiterate, while 94 percent of white citizens were literate. "

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" Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways. "

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" Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big. "

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" Many people who try to do big bold things in the world find out it's not about the money or the technology: It's about the regulatory hurdles that will try and stop you. "

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" The reason we care so much about what happens to the likes of Lady Gaga is not because her shenanigans will ever impact our lives; rather because our brain doesn't realize there's a difference between rock stars we know about and relatives we know. "

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" Since the age of 6, I've always wanted to go to space. "

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" Never before in history has the global marketplace touched so many consumers and provided access to so many producers. "

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" I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors. "

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" I think about things like, 'Will my kids need a college account? Will they even go to college?' I don't know if that will be the case. "

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