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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.
Online games for data-mining have a short virtual shelf life. People get bored, especially if the game seems stagnant.
Never before in history has the global marketplace touched so many consumers and provided access to so many producers.
Large-scale philanthropy, based in the private - not the public - sector, is a relatively recent historical development.
My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.
Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success.
We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy.
I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'
If you have a fear of flying, don't. The data are very clear: If you have to travel someplace, the safest way is by airplane.
We know from hard research that educated populations have lower growth rates, are more peaceful, and add to the global economy.
Today, every skirmish in every part of the planet is broadcast straight into your living room live, in HD... over and over again.
My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.
Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted.
Drones photograph, prospect and advertise real estate from golf courses to skyscrapers; they also monitor construction in progress.
Creating abundance [is] not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility.
The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt.
We're now able to 3D print in 200 different materials, from titanium to rubber, plastic, glass, ceramic, leathers, and even chocolate.
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.
Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that says otherwise.
I ended up realizing that NASA was unlikely to get me into space, or get me to the moon or beyond, and I needed some other way to drive this.
The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.
The goal of my work is to help assure that we can create a world of abundance in which we meet the basic needs of every man, woman and child.
The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines of space.
The price to generate a megawatt or a gigawatt of energy is coming down year after year. We're learning how to print it, make it more efficient.
All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well.
True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.
Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.
Human exploration is something that's been going on for thousands of years, and the models that worked 500 years ago are likely to work again today.
Nothing matters more than your health. Healthy living is priceless. What millionaire wouldn't pay dearly for an extra 10 or 20 years of healthy aging?
I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.
As of the mid-90s, over 50 percent of women have a bachelor's and master's degree, compared to about 35 percent and 30 percent, respectively, in 1920.
Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.
In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling.
Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so.
Not only are we working less, we're enjoying ourselves more. As we're working toward this world of abundance, we're able to increasingly enjoy leisure time.
Find that thing that you are passionate about, that you will do day or night whether someone pays you or not...because if you have that, you will have gold.
By 2020 the U.S. will be short 91,000 doctors. There's no way we can educate enough doctors to make up that shortfall, and other countries are far worse off.
If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years... since the invention of fireworks by the Chinese.
We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy. It's just not in usable form yet.
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.
Small teams driven by their passion with a clear focus can do extraordinary things. Things that only large corporations and governments could do in the past.
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.
Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and a head start, but ignored all that.
When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huffington Post' from scratch and reinventing the newspaper business.
I'm not saying we don't have our set of problems - climate crisis, species extinction, water and energy shortage - we surely do. But ultimately we knock them down.
As medical research continues and technology enables new breakthroughs, there will be a day when malaria and most all major deadly diseases are eradicated on Earth.
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.
Even a small village in the middle of Africa with a 3D printer will have access to any good it can download. The world of the 'Star Trek' replicator is not far away.
The Net is allowing us to turn ourselves into a giant, collective meta-intelligence. And this meta-intelligence continues to grow as more and more people come online.
In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in developing countries, the population gets five to eight years of education.