Peter Diamandis
In a recent landmark talk, Peter Diamandis shared how we are rapidly heading towards a human-scale transformation, the next evolutionary step into what he calls a “Meta-Intelligence,” a future in which we are all highly connected—brain to brain via the cloud— sharing thoughts, knowledge and actions.
In a recent TEDx Talk, Peter Diamandis shared how we are rapidly heading towards a human-scale transformation, the next evolutionary step into what he calls a “Meta-Intelligence,” a future in which we are all highly connected—brain to brain via the cloud—sharing thoughts, knowledge and actions. Check out the video below.
People have no idea how fast the world is changing according to Peter Diamandis. Reviewing the history of computation on the planet, he describes how the deceptive nature of emerging exponential technology disguises their ever-increasing impacts. Initially with computers, the growth was slow, "it was beginning to change us, but we didn't feel it yet."
"We then entered a period of disruptive growth, where it is exploding onto the world," states Diamandis. He highlights the four driving forces as well as the four steps that is transforming humanity.
The exponential growth of technology promises a world of abundance, says Diamandis. Already global incomes are rising, lifespan is increasing, food price is dropping, energy production is increasing, with price reductions. These factors are contributing to a rise in literacy rates, a reduction and to the reducing cost of transportation and communications.
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For Diamandis this means that above all, knowledge is a million-fold cheaper—for every single person on the planet."It's happening in our lifetime, it's happening in your lifetime, it's happening during the next thirty years."
Moveover, "besides creating abundance, and demonetizing the cost of living, we are also about to see the transformation of the human race," he states. Diamandis believes we will change how we raise and educate our children, how we govern ourselves, how we communicate, how we conduct work and business, and we will become a multi-planetary species."It's happening in our lifetime, it's happening in your lifetime, it's happening during the next thirty years—so don't blink," says Diamandis emphatically. As Moore's Law continues, technologies like networks, sensors, robotics, 3D printing, synthetic biology, materials science, augmented and virtual reality and artificial intelligence are combining and feeding off of each other, and combining, producing what Diamandis labels, "unexpected convergent consequences."
With billions of new users accessing the internet in the coming years, "we are about to see a massive explosion in innovation, like we have not seen yet," he states. What's more, is the Internet of Things (IoT) will bring billions of more sensors and devices on-line as well. Diamandis mentions how he and Ray Kurzweil predict that this connection will also be expanding to direct neural connections as well.
"AI is our most important tool ever," claims Diamandis, helping us bridge the other technologies with our minds. These will lead to what he calls the creation of a "Meta-Intelligence." What we about to do is to connect eight billion minds, allowing us to look out into the Universe.
Diamandis is the Founder and Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation which leads the world in designing and operating large-scale incentive competitions. Diamandis is a New York Times Bestselling co-author of two books: Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think
and Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
. He is also the Co-Founder & Exec Chairman of Singularity University, a graduate-level Silicon Valley institution that counsels the world’s leaders on exponentially growing technologies. As an entrepreneur, Diamandis has started 17 companies. He is the Co-Founder and Vice-Chairman of Human Longevity Inc. (HLI), a genomics and cell therapy-based company focused on extending the healthy human lifespan, and Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Planetary Resources, a company designing spacecraft to enable the detection and prospecting of asteroid for fuels and precious materials.
