Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.
Learning how to understand how technology evolves, using tools like a Technology Road Map, is what you need more than anything to ride on top of the tsunami instead of being crushed by it.
Incentive prizes work.
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?
Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.
Nothing is more precious than life… especially the life of your child.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it’s worth considering.
What decisions would you make differently today if you knew you would most likely live to be 150? How would you think about your 50s or 60s? How would you evaluate your career arcs or investments or even the area in which you live?
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?’
In the early ’90s, well under 5 percent of the global population was online.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.
Paul Allen with Microsoft revolutionized the software industry.
Make it clear up front what the aim of the company is. Stay true to your authentic vision.
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.
Your mindset matters. It affects everything – from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.
Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there’s a chance of success.
Future companies will be smaller and more nimble.
I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.
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.
Private industry’s job is to make money. Private industry’s job is to create a huge economic engine.
If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can’t be breakthroughs.
The fact is that data are worth a lot of money.
When I think about creating abundance, it’s not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it’s about creating a life of possibility. It is about taking that which was scarce and making it abundant.
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.
With faster Internet and better computers, you’d better believe we’re creating and consuming more digital data.
It’s never been easier to share your ideas and passions with the world.
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