"I wanna, in the next 30 minutes, give you a sense on how fast the world is changing." Wow! It's changing so fast that his 30 minute presentation only took 22 minutes. ;-p

Peter, I doubt you'll ever read this, but you really are a hero of mine. Thanks so much for what you do.

In a world so full of pessimism and hopelessness this is a real inspiirational talk to all of us, young or old alike, living anywhere in this world. Thanks, Peter. You're unique.

In the last few days I have said "Exciting times!" so often - this video just goes and affirms that statement!

I'm always inspired by you Peter Diamandis, I couldn't have asked for anything better. I'm making great strides in Africa because of you.

Mr. peter dimandis, you are a brilliant man!!!

This is incredible. I bought the book after seeing this - the startup and tech revolution is here and there has never been a greater time to start a company and innovate.

Excellent video, thanks for posting, much appreciated : )

Diamandis is right. The future can be very positive. The processing power of computers is accelerating so fast that it's changing all industries and all forms of business. Jobs are changing. The jobs are being transformed into tasks in job apps. The shopping did change. Now almost everyone can have their virtual office online, without renting an office. Clients can come it into a virtual office, or do video calls. More and more people can work from home, as long as their Internet connection is very nice.

Got to love all of those taking pictures of the slides, when this is on KZfaq

Amazing to Peters passion only multiply every year (by factor of 10x, beating Moore’s law) 👏👍🚀😀

This made me happy

Recorded from August 22, 2018.

Nice talk, putting into perspective how fast the change has happened and how it is accelerating.

Brazil here. Welcome Peter!

all these older folks think that within their lifetime they'll see technology that will enable them to live for 3-5 more decades. you never see them predict (far more likely) that the technology is still a century away

10:08 investing to accelerate the arrival of The Singularity. I LIKE IT!. Masayoshi-san and SoftBank are going places!

I adore you dear Peter Diamandis.

Fantastic!!

Love it,excellent explanation,thank you👌☝️✨

Technology is indeed growing exponentially but another thing is growing exponentially which isn’t mentioned by Peter very much and that is environmental destruction, species extinction at nearly 200 species per day, raging wild fires, torrential rains, tornados, hurricanes and that is just a few of the numerous devastating catastrophes that civilization has produced.

also: don't forget to enjoy every day of 2018, 2019, 2020, ...

Singularity only succeeds when you do the best heavenly things!

This talk was very informative and educational.

This video was amazing

Excellent speech

sweet idea the singularity University 🎓!

Thx for this informative video.

The Relative Growth Movement is already underway!

Thank you!!! 🌟

Thank you.

"what does it means when I have a million fold memory" 15:20 It means total recall. If you unlock the brain, you might be able to give people the same thing those who had near death experience report namely, seeing one's whole life before their eyes in an instant. Imagine remembering everything all the time effortlessly.

Great !

Accelerationg exponential Technologies+ the exponential growth computing

Welcome to the Church of Singularity.

🙏 thank you Peter

2:47 Accelerating the acceleration - Computational Abundance /Moore's Law; Saved Time; Prize Thinking;

Acceleration is the second derivative of position, therefore re acceleration of the acceleration is not jerk, but snap.

Good to hear an update on Ray Kurzweil's prediction of when we'll reach the longevity escape velocity - 12 years from now. So for most people watching this video that is definitely attainable. And even if you're over 70 so in the high-risk zone, don't forget that shortly after we achieve LEV we will start reversing ageing to bring you biological age back down to your 20s, rather than living forever in your 80s.

I will contribute in reaching singularity

It is quite exciting, exhilarating. I truly commend PD's enthusiasm and optimism. If technology is used for the most noble purposes, to expedite human evolution to a higher, expanded level of consciousness, then this drive to tech singularity is truly needed. The challenge is, this could also mean tools of incredible power & rapid connectivity in the hands of those with destructive mindset. Technology is amoral. It works with same efficiency in the hands of both good and bad minds. So, how do we prevent catastrophic disasters engendered by minds that are conditioned to create a dystopia, using these incredible technologies? How do we expand consciousness while our objective seems to be an expansion of human intelligence to super intelligence state with the help of AI? More than ever, the need is a concerted drive toward "inner singularity" before we arrive at "outer singularity." Humanity has to build a critical mass of individuals who reach a state of consciousness that is divine in nature and that is the only way to nullify the minds that contract into devilish states. Great tools have great power and we need humans who use it with great responsibility and care only with an intention of speeding up the evolution of this highly creative species.

The story the Beauty and the beast is one of the best story,the bad spell is over,the bad curse is over,that is singularly !

Not everyone is equal in intelligence, curiosity and self-confidence. And, today's performing individual types will certainly not be those of tomorrow. It could be, as an example, that the successful people of the future will be those who handle boredom the best as machines will cater to their every need. Or else.

Excellent talk! You're more inspiring than Kaku and Kurzweil!

Great talk Peter. I don't want to be that guy, but one correction. The singularity in physics is the beginning of our universe (the big bang) not a black hole.

I have two questions regarding this. How do singularitarians view climate change? Life expectancy has been falling in the US recently. How does this square with you worldview? Sincerely yours truly.

What's Your Fight Team? 1) Objective Truth or 2) Subjective Truth @

The future is always in the past of the next day.

I wish Peter was my great uncle growing up... imagine the seeds he would plant in a child's curious mind... his kids are very lucky... I hope they appreciate him! He's probably cloned them to be replaced if they turn out to be A-holes!

Bad spell is over,bad curse is over that is singularity !

LOVE THIS GUY!

The haves, and the super haves? 🤯

5:48 This is still the current time, current reality for much of the world...... and it's arguably a good life... Not better or worse, just a different set of problems. Easier problems. More human-compatible problems.

Peter .very inspiring video. I’ve researched hundreds of company’s worldwide with a different view . I look for new technology and exponential potential. My favorite is Australian company fbr . No idea if you heard of it but they Will explode globally

*tech and infostorage are accelerating, culture and reality on the ground are still so slow. "being in the 21st century is having 20th century culture distributed by high-speed internet"

Amazing talk. Thank you:)

Think these are positive developments. Would like to see some of the capital investment go towards fortification of redundant physical infrastructure for communications and electric grids since so much of the positivity discussed here is reliant on that infrastructure being continuously operational with no hiccups. I realize such projects are not all that sexy relative to innovative tech, but as the speaker said, the “challenge was to avoid complacency”.

I though it was discovered that makers have been keeping up with that "graph" rather than that graph demonstrating the pace they're going at?....I don't suppose that would hut the rate of pace though because even if the whole mores law thing was fanciful it it made them go hard!

Excellent presentation and spot on correct. However, he left out some other key accelerants - Artificial Intelligence, big data, big data analytics, Augmented Reality, Deep Learning, Cloud Computing, Quantum Computing, and even Smart Cities.

The Singularity Is Near

Access to the internet isn't "access to all the computational power you want."

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Wow!!! This is amazing! I'm def excited for the future :o

Peter, If you truly think that in less than 30 years we will nearly be at our technological peak is insane. So you think in 2070 we will have the same technology as 2035? Ideas and innovation will always continue.

Nipsey Hussle Got me here! TMC

The problem is his assumption that Moore's law can continue forever. It can't & we already know this. By 2120 computation power will exceed the number of atoms in the observable universe . Then the assumption that the time saved from innovation will be well spent. I wish you were correct

The future is only scary if we try to avoid it. I'm fascinated by the power of exponentianality. I'm curious about the changes that's gonna happen to the use of fiat currency.

Does anyone have the slides from this talk?

What a nice guy, very positive about the future. Just like me. I´m your follower now, Peter!

Peter Diamandis, why don't you talk about phasing out money and diving into post-scarcity with all technology can already accomplish?

I wonder what the weather's like on his planet? The price of food & housing has been steadily climbing while wages haven't kept up. Then there's then hidden cost of his technology - the cost to mine the rare quartz, malibidininnidum (I never could pronounce that!), the the refining, the shipping, the fabrication, the final assembly & testing at the slave camps. Then there's the end-user cost, which most have learned to do without because they can't afford the latest I-phone.

This is based on statistics, past trends, hard data - the opposite of religion. That it points to a better future is a bonus, not its raison d'être.

And will all this human genius ever be able to feed the world, stop wars and pollution. Hope so .

I am all for seeing technology bringing about a better way of life and respecting the planet as we move on. My only concern is having "super human" dominance over "ordinary humans"!

Henry Ford gave the same sales pitch to the Robber Barons. rob·ber bar·on noun plural noun: robber barons a person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices (originally with reference to prominent US businessmen in the late 19th century). The people here are listed in Josephson, Robber Barons or in the cited source, Andrew Carnegie (steel) - Pittsburgh and New York William A. Clark (copper) - Butte, Montana[25] Jay Cooke (finance) - Philadelphia Charles Crocker (railroads) - California Daniel Drew (finance) - New York James Buchanan Duke (tobacco, electric power) - Durham, North Carolina James Dunsmuir (coal, lumber) - Victoria, BC Canada[26] Marshall Field (retail) - Chicago[27] James Fisk (finance) - New York Henry Morrison Flagler (Standard Oil, railroads) - New York and Florida[28] Henry Clay Frick (steel) - Pittsburgh and New York John Warne Gates (barbed wire, oil) - Texas[29] Jay Gould (railroads) - New York[30] Edward Henry Harriman (railroads) - New York[31] James J. Hill (fuel, coal, steamboats, railroads) - St Paul, Minnesota Charles T. Hinde (railroads, water transport, shipping, hotels) - Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, California Mark Hopkins (railroads) - California Collis Potter Huntington (railroads) - California Andrew W. Mellon (finance, oil) - Pittsburgh J. P. Morgan (finance, industrial consolidation) - New York John Cleveland Osgood (coal mining, iron) - Colorado[32] Henry B. Plant (railroads) - Florida[33] William Randolph Hearst (Media mogul) - California[34][35] John D. Rockefeller (Standard Oil) - Cleveland, New York Henry Huttleston Rogers (Standard Oil; copper), New York.[36] Charles M. Schwab (steel) - Pittsburgh and New York Joseph Seligman (banking) - New York John D. Spreckels (water transport, railroads, sugar) - California Leland Stanford (railroads) - California Cornelius Vanderbilt (water transport, railroads) - New York[37] Charles Tyson Yerkes (street railroads) - Chicago[38] I bet you can name 25 Robber Barrons right now in this field of Technology.

Everything this guy says, I must believe, IS RIGHT.

Take a shot for each "accelerating"

How much faster can we go ?

Accelerating assets for the super rich.

If one is waiting for the singularity that one is bound to be crushed by it.

If we have the ability to do what this video suggests then why are there people who are homeless? why are there people who are without food? why is there war? and "I don't know" is no longer a valid answer.

It'd be interesting to compare Mr. Diamandis' talks from sequential summits to see all the jerks.

I wonder if there is a Singularity University that does not contain Moore's law.

Awesome 👏 talk Inspiration in ref to the future

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una cosa es el capital de una nación y otra la verdadera riqueza, no olvidemos que lo que causa esto es la inflación.

What "wakes me up and scares me a little bit" is climate breakdown, which is as exponentially growing as thechnology is

There appears to be a major missing piece here ... it is true that since around 1970 we have had the technology to provide a high standard of living for everyone on Earth, and this is a paradigm shift from not enough to a new paradigm, or context today of abundance. What would have people / companies compete once they know there is abundance. The future must be about collaboration and distribution of wealth.

I appreciate the challenge to the billionaires to slay our greatest problems.

Key nuance here is that everyone will at least be "haves" supported by Maslo's first two critical rungs. Following an an exchange from Elon, sufficient automation will necessitate UBI, as well hopefully UHC will finally break past the corrupt firewall in America and few remaining areas in the world without it.

"Sequencing the human genome back in 2001 cost $100 million. Next year it will cost $100." Jesus. Back in 2001, a 1 GB flash drive cost $128. Now, a 2 TB flash drive costs $12. Craziness. "Nothing has changed!" I don't know what you're talking about. *Everything* has changed. We're living in straight up Magic Times.

New technology will solve some problems, but it will also create new ones. Like all, its just a tool. We may become smarter, but there are a lot smart idiots. What we need most is wisdom and people with pure motives.

Did you include global warming?

Thx for the talk, you did an outstandig job there ... at 7:25 the accellleration is mybe even bigger because you could use lumen instead of watts (the lightbulb as been removed with LED and there is also an exponential evolution -> www.cree.com/news-media/news/article/cree-first-to-break-300-lumens-per-watt-barrier ) so if you use lumen you might get an hyperbolic regression curve ;)

But according to Back2theFuture part 2 we should already had flying skateboards.

This is Good, But: How much more Humanity could do without the Basic problems like Hunger, Sickness and “Madness”? With a better behavior Humanity could Grow Wayyyyy Faster and more Efficient.

Moore's Law is inherently limited. We've already advanced very far. I doubt it will last forever. That's why quantum computing holds so much promise. Though I guess that might just be an opinion.

wow....accelerating the acceleration....this guy got at least a B in Calculus class.

Resulta paradojal que Singularity University, un incuestionable líder social en el mundo actual, lejos de hacer honor a su nombre, sea incapaz de realizar una adecuada lectura del particular momento evolutivo que estamos viviendo. Sus proyecciones, en exceso optimistas, no solo no parecen no contemplar “la Singularidad que viene”. En efecto, a la hora de proyectar las consecuencias que tendrá en el mundo del trabajo la irrupción de la Inteligencia Artificial, apuestan a que se repetirá el escenario que vivió la humanidad cuando la Revolución Industrial se abrió paso, alterando las condiciones laborales. Singularity University apuesta, sin base, a que se repetirá la historia y que se crearán más puestos de trabajo que los actuales que sean reemplazados por la Inteligencia Artificial. En la práctica, es cosa de tiempo para que la Inteligencia Artificial sea capaz de realizar TODO aquello que hoy es susceptible de ser llamado “trabajo humano”. ¿Veinte años? ¿Cien años?. Es solo cosa de tiempo. ¿Qué peso le asigna Singularity University al rol que puede jugar la Inteligencia Artificial en lo de “competir” con el ser humano y eventualmente quitarle el liderazgo evolutivo que hoy poseemos?. Para Stephen Hawking, quien no era precisamente un imbécil, el ser humano perdería esa batalla. Singularity University se mantiene ajena, y hace como si no existiera el desafío en cuestión. Otra muestra se su extravío se manifiesta cuando reparamos en la postura que tiene Singularity University para referirse al hecho cierto de que más bien antes que después los humanos conseguiremos rejuvenecer y optar a vivir “por toda una eternidad”. No hacen el esfuerzo mental para dimensionar lo que ello implica. Se conforman con vomitar cifras y destacar los avances tecnológicos en salud sin valorar su significado. La ceguera intelectual de Singularity University les impide realizar la labor que en mérito de su nombre les corresponde hacer. No basta con vomitar optimismo para ser hoy un líder social como el que aparenta, cree ser, Singularity University. A los gurúes de las redes les basta con vender la idea “tu todo lo puedes” para disponer de una audiencia. Lamentablemente, el rol actual de Sigularity University parece ser el de un “vendedor de ilusiones”. Y es lamentable por cuanto no basta con sustentar el optimismo sobre “cifras duras” para disponer de un adecuado correlato del particular momento evolutivo que estamos viviendo. Es preciso, si Singularity University busca ser un agente social efectivo, que comience por poner los pies sobre la tierra. Ello implica ampliar su mirada, y reconocer que para hacer frente a lo que viene precisamos disponer de un derrotero de acción que precisa comenzar por dar respuesta a las preguntas ¿Qué somos? y ¿Hacia dónde vamos?. Cierto es que tales preguntas han resultado ser preguntas que están presentes en el ser humano desde que accedió a la Acción Consciente, como cierto es que, habida consideración del rol que ha jugado el Método Científico en “meternos en este enredo evolutivo”, el mundo científico ha dejado en manos de los filósofos hacer frente a dichas preguntas. El tema es que “se nos acaba el tiempo”, y precisamos hacer uso de todas nuestras herramientas para hacer frente a lo que viene. Sobre el particular, le recomiendo a Sigularity University que invite a un concurso mundial en el que el primer premio será para quien entregue la más convincente explicación de “lo que somos” los humanos. Sin saber de lo que somos -o al menos de la mejor aproximación a la que podamos optar para acceder a tal saber- nuestras posibilidades de ser asertivos se sustentarán solo en la intuición. Con ello se denigra el potencial de acción de la Razón, herramienta evolutiva que nos ha conducido a vivir el particular momento evolutivo en el que estamos situados.

Ammm...when you print more money, you get more money. No surprises there!