It's never been easier to share your ideas and passions with the world.
— Peter Diamandis
It used to be that, in astronomy, a small team of people could look at photos of a few thousand galaxies and classify and catalog them relatively easily. But now, with a new generation of robotic telescopes scanning the skies constantly and producing millions of images, that's become next to impossible.
Making things open-source brings the cost down.
In 1900, 180-plus out of every 1,000 African-American babies died.
Incentive prizes work.
As humans, we have evolved to compete... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition.
Future companies will be smaller and more nimble.
If you look back 600 years ago, royals' sole goal was to keep their wealth within the family.
Revealing water in significant quantities on the Moon could truly be a turning point in space exploration.
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.
Today, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone - not just artists - is a photographer, and the explosion of photos taken annually proves it.
Most advertisers spend millions upon millions of dollars to buy commercial time during the Super Bowl, and millions in creating eye-popping ads, hoping to create catchy, unforgettable commercials. Unfortunately, most Super Bowl commercials end up being unmemorable. Costly mistakes for brands and creative flameouts for advertising firms.
Whether it's steamships disrupted by the railroads or railroads disrupted by the airlines, it's typically the large entrenched incumbents that are displaced by innovators.
I had started Zero-G specifically to broaden the public for access to weightlessness.
The truest drive comes from doing what you love.
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.
If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.
As of 2011, it cost about $5,000 to launch a tech startup.
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.
After more than a decade as the editor of 'Wired' magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams - a robotics manufacturing company called 3D Robotics - to produce the autonomous flying vehicles coming out of DIY Drones.
In the 1960s, 110 countries had averages of six or more children per family.
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.
The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely takes technologies pioneered by the government and turns them into cheap, reliable and robust industries. This has happened in aviation, air mail, computers, and the Internet.
Old-style management is irrelevant.
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.
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.
Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted.
With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data.
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.
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.
I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors.
When hiring, trust your feelings.
If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.
Make it clear up front what the aim of the company is. Stay true to your authentic vision.
In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.
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.
Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what they've already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy - not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward.
Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child.
The fact that the Virgin logo was on the side of SpaceShipOne on October 4th, 2004 was fantastic.
Collective management will build companies - not top-down decision-making.
Large-scale philanthropy, based in the private - not the public - sector, is a relatively recent historical development.
If you've been wondering where the next gold rush is going to take place, look up at the night sky to our closest celestial neighbor. The next economic boom might just be a mere 240,000 miles away on the bella luna.
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.
Remember when vacation photos meant toting along a bulky camera?
It used to be that the only ones with access to cutting-edge technology were top government labs, big companies and the ultra-rich. It was simply too expensive for the rest of us to afford.
The Department of Energy made an investment that failed, and it got raked over the coals for that failed investment. This is ridiculous. The fact of the matter is, the government should be making a lot of risky investments, the majority of which are likely to fail.
I view risk-aversion as crippling America in many ways.
My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a 'crowd' accomplish? We know crowds can raise billions of dollars, create Wikipedia, and even design and build small autonomous drones. But how about something large and complex like designing a new car, and maybe someday even a spaceship?
Never tolerate a toxic person in your organization.
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.
