People like him are very motivating for the rest of us who are making bread, making shoes, dresses and cleaning the streets. It's more fun, if there are people who reach for the stars and take us visually along for the ride.

Peter’s optimism is so infectious

One area that I personally predict to grow enormously if not exponentially is entertainment. As technologies become increasingly less expensive and easier to utilize, more people will be empowered to release their own creativity and provide unique and novell experiences for others to engage and enjoy. For current examples, simply look at the growth of entertainment videos (ie. youtube, patreon, twitch), gaming and VR experiences, and even educational entertainment.

I really admire Peter's work.

Always a pleasure to listen to Peter speak. Thank you.

I don't worry about a future without jobs. Powerful tools CREATE opportunities. And technology becoming cheap and simple to use puts those tools in everybody's hands. The real threats to jobs are political. Always have been. Government making arbitrary decisions that ignore market realities and that end up making it impossible for people to sell their labor. As long as we have unfilled needs and without such interference, we'll be able to trade our labor (or what we create with our labor) with other people in the same situation. That's all the market is. Steve Jobs said "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards." He was talking about our own individual paths, but I think it applies to our technological evolution as well. People have always been afraid of change and have always extrapolated temporary disruptions out into eternity. The reality is that the GAIN from these disruptions is what lasts, not the PAIN. People will always be able to trade with other people who need to trade. It's as true of two trillion people as it is of two people living on an island.

If a small percentage have the capacity to decide to what use land is being put to, what we work in, what we are educated in, what is researched... and they are filtered by how much money they have, that is a problem.

great answers.

Inspirational human!

thank

I love Peter

What the Equation?? All well and beautiful. Now that you know how everything (almost) works, don't we need an equation for the under-standing of Everything??

that 14:40 is such a great answer! for a really hard question. Mr. Diamandis is the alien intellegence that will unites us.. am just kidding.

At 17:30 Peter cites Eric Schmidt as saying that rather than spending $1 billion militarily in Afghanistan, we should have spent a $1 billion on WiFi and other technologies in Afghanistan. But, what good are these technologies if the environment in which they are to be used is not stable? We can put all the technology in there that we want but if the Taliban blows it all up because it represents Western influence which is anathema to them, what have we gained? Instead, we need to spread humanism, or an appreciation of human dignity, across the globe. People have a choice. Live like cave men (the Flintstones) or like the Jetsons. The choice is yours.

A world peace app.

hmmn wonder if I can do this in relatively short form.. i'll try. first bit of background then important part of retiring young and mental stuff I've noticed. so I became a diabetic when I was 5, over heard doctors saying if I worked at it I could have a relatively good life but probably dead by forty. I had a high iq (150+) and near fotographic memory, I could multi task my brain, watch tv, read a book, play chess at same time was one of my earlier tricks. I buried myself in books, I didn't fit in with my peers, by grade four I was correcting teachers, by grade 5 I was reading 3 full novels a day, thought I was a adult (I was more comfortable dealing with adults (they knew enough that sometimes I got new information and could communicate at a level a lot closer to where I was at). I really missed out on learning how to socialize with my peers, I didn't feel like they had anything to offer me and except as a teacher I had little to offer them (you may notice a little regret.. lol). By the time I was 17 I had pretty much concluded that I could not be happy, didn't have enough time to find a group of peers before I died young (with the last ten years filled with medical problems), darned teenage angst and few months before my 18th birthday I drove off what was basically a 35 meter dropoff (very steep valley and I left hwy at, according to police, 240km/h, hit near bottem). broke up my body some, ended up with a fused hip, back problems.. some respects very lucky but I was already feeling hopeless. Next five years, every few months I would try to kill myself again, finally gave up trying because I just couldn't seem to die. Spent a couple of years being a drug addict, iv user , hep c (finally got a doctor to give me the cure .. started few days ago. hope it helps :) ). now the meat because of health (read injuries), lots of pain, strong painkillers (morphine), I didn't do well trying to get back to school.. I had gotten my ged and a year of college under my belt but just wasn't able to stick to it or focus enough to do things that might of kept me interested (science, did business management instead and most courses I knew as much or more then the professors). Long story short I retired at 32 just couldn't hold a job without running myself into the ground (51 now). Its been interesting, didn't have much money but was physically able to keep myself occupied for the first 10 years, lots of reading, online gaming, lived in a tent half the year in mexico. BUT I've had a horrible time with not working, bit of family help so I wasn't destitute (I looked at math hundred ways and it has been physically (financially) impossible to survive on cpp disability (Canadian pension plan). Without my family I would of had to turn to crime to keep a roof over my head, food on the table and medication for health stuff. I've met many people in the same situation and they are all In same boat. point I am making is that we are a long way from being culturally ready to give people a gaurenteed basic income. I grew up in a middle class family, its been extremely hard to accept being poor and even Canada, probably one of the more socialized countrys in the world isn't prepared to provide more then the bare absolute minimum support for survival and people won't survive long at that. every person I've known in last thirty years who receives government support lives what I would call a substandard life and lies, cheats and/or steals just to keep themselves In a somewhat tolerable situation. this life of abundance futurists are predicting sounds wonderful but its gonna be a hellish fifty years for culture to adapt to be willing to support a large portion of our society. there is also, as history has shown up bread and circuses only work to a degree,. riots and revolution are comman markers of a society where the gap between the haves and the have nots is to large and to my eyes we are approaching that point .. hope I'm wrong. the other point I wanted to make is how hard it has been to retire.. I had my first paper route at six years of age, I worked as much as I was able for as long as I was able (last 8 years can't do much of anything anymore.. hate my body). It has been excruciating not working, lots of boredom, huge feelings of inadequacy and guilt for not constibuting more to society, way to much time to think about my failures in my life. I just don't see the average human being not having something to make themselves feel valued in society. One of the problems I believe I have noticed in the people talking about this problem is that they talk about creativity and desire to explore (one idiot even said we will all have to keep working more on education to keep up), I don't think most people are like that. I don't see a basic income being enough for most people.. rather to replace the importance of a "job", the feeling of accomplishment, our sense of identity we will need gaurenteed upper middle class on vacation levels of support. Maybe that's the answer to the Fermi paradox, maybe societys reach a point of not having to work and just curl up and die from lack of purpose.apologize for being long winded, probably rambled some.. between pain and painkillers.. probably some brain damage is hard to focus these days. Hope I am wrong I believe the human race has enormous potential.. I really hope we fulfill it.

Peter talks about not listening to CNN because they are always repeating the same crisis stories, then today he tweets out a video from them talking about another Trump crisis. C'mon, Peter.

We don't have those disasters today? (talking about war and pestilence)... I think we are IN one of those disasters right now Peter, and I suspect a world war will follow.

I measure empathy with an IR camera... and increase it with a wet rag wrapped around my head

" there will be winners and losers . But ..." we want you to lose