At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions... all good things.
— Peter Diamandis
Drones watch for disease and collect real-time data on crop health and yields.
There was a Gallup poll that said something like 70 percent of people in the United States do not enjoy their job - they work to put food on the table and get insurance to survive. So, what happens when technology can do all that work for us and allow us to actually do what we enjoy with our time?
The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines of space.
Private companies should be building businesses.
Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day execution work of keeping it going. But people need to stay connected to the boldness, to the vision, and stay plugged in to the main vein of the dream.
The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions.
The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.
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.
An exponential growth is a simple doubling. One becomes two becomes four.
I think the folks who go after grand challenges are impatient.
Now, we connect via Skype or Google+ Hangout and see our friends' and loved ones' faces live.
In 1994, to motivate me to complete my pilot's license, my good friend, Gregg Maryniak, gave me Charles Lindbergh's autobiography of his solo flight across the Atlantic.
A dapper Canadian in his mid-fifties, Rob McEwen bought the disparate collection of gold mining companies known as Goldcorp in 1989. A decade later, he'd unified those companies and was ready for expansion - a process he wanted to start by building a new refinery.
I get my news from selected Google News and my social feed.
Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times.
Have an open mind - allow different ideas into your way of thinking.
Visual artists use drones to capture beautiful new images and camera angles.
In 1976, Kodak's first digital camera shot at 0.1 megapixels, weighed 3.75 pounds, and cost over $10,000.
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.
Private industry's job is to make money. Private industry's job is to create a huge economic engine.
If the government regulates against use of drones or stem cells or artificial intelligence, all that means is that the work and the research leave the borders of that country and go someplace else.
I was seeing a lot of entrepreneurs who were effectively working on the next photo-sharing app. I wanted to inspire them to go much bigger, bolder and more significant than that.
Government research has to go through peer review.
Many entrepreneurs that made their fortunes by founding successful technology companies want to give back and solve the world's biggest problems on a grand scale. There is tremendous opportunity in this approach.
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.
If you're the CEO of a publicly traded company, you're worried about quarterly returns.
Paul Allen with Microsoft revolutionized the software industry.
Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized.
Since the age of 6, I've always wanted to go to space.
I collect a lot of data. We all do.
I've stopped watching TV news. They couldn't pay me enough money.
Online games for data-mining have a short virtual shelf life. People get bored, especially if the game seems stagnant.
Regardless of what the naysayers believe about human interaction and social media, the data show us that the abundance of technology is actually increasing the abundance of happiness all over the world.
Drones photograph, prospect and advertise real estate from golf courses to skyscrapers; they also monitor construction in progress.
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.
The rate of innovation is a function of the total number of people connected and exchanging ideas. It has gone up as population has gone up. It's gone up as people have concentrated in cities.
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.
When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?'
I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'
We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.
My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.
All of us are linear thinkers. We evolved in a world that was local and linear. You know, back 100,000, 200,000, millions of years ago, when we were evolving as a human species, nothing changed. You know, the life of your great-grandparents, you, your kids - it was the same. And so we are local and linear thinkers.
Lots of people dream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what they've done. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite. So just do something.
Elon Musk with PayPal revolutionized banking.
In 1980, it cost just under $600 to take a round-trip flight within the United States.
Imagine what we could do for the world's grand challenges with a trillion hours of focused attention.
The fact is that data are worth a lot of money.
Today, every skirmish in every part of the planet is broadcast straight into your living room live, in HD... over and over again.
One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images.
