Peter Diamandis

How Peter Diamandis Left Me Feeling Better About the World's Future

Thomas Kruczek | Posted 05.15.2012

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Thomas Kruczek

I still know that there are problems with the global economy, that America's unemployment is still high, and that the housing market is still unsettled. Despite these facts, I feel better, because I've just spent the last 24 hours with Dr. Peter Diamandis.

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Arthur C. Clarke Inspired MeThen; Peter Diamandis Inspires Me Now: Lessons in Abundance and Exponential Thinking

Kay Koplovitz | Posted 04.23.2012

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Kay Koplovitz

Arthur C. Clarke inspired me to envision a world fully connected. Peter Diamandis inspires me to understand a world ripe with abundance, and to imagine wondrous improvements for mankind.

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An Oasis of Ideas at TED 2012

Max Lugavere | Posted 05.12.2012

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Max Lugavere

Last year, we learned of the dangers of one's "filter bubble." At TED, there is no such danger: The talks are multi-sensory, cross-disciplinary, and always delivered with passion by someone at the top of their game. What's not to love?

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Peter Diamandis: Abundance Is Our Future (Video)

Deron Triff | Posted 04.30.2012

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Deron Triff

2012-03-01-PeterDiamandis_TED2012_020305_D31_7403_1920copy.jpgPeter Diamandis believes we have never been readier to solve the world's most pressing challenges.

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Abundance: A Reminder of the Need to Focus on Our Surpluses and Not Just Our Shortages

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.22.2012

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Arianna Huffington

With unemployment still over 8 percent, we currently have more ingenuity, energy, and expertise than we have jobs -- and definitely more time on our hands. That's one reason I was so drawn to Abundance, a new book by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Rocket Engines

Peter Diamandis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Diamandis

My colleagues at the X PRIZE Foundation recently announced the official roster of 29 teams competing to send a robot to the moon. The moon is almost within our grasp already.

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Congratulations to the Winners of the $10 Million Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE

Peter Diamandis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Diamandis

This year's competition structure demanded breakthrough thinking that would literally disrupt the industry and produce an accelerated wave to push it ahead in leaps and bounds.

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X Prize Challenges Innovators To Take On Oil Spill Cleanup

Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011

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BP is closer than ever to a fix that will stop leakage from its disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But capping the gushing oil marks the b...

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The Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE Competition is Heating Up

Peter Diamandis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Diamandis

Step aside oversized SUVs, and welcome in the more compact, earth-friendly wheels. Out with the luxurious and in with the parsimonious. What was once considered nerdy is now haute couture.

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Personal Spaceflight Industry - Reflections on the Five Year Anniversary of the Ansari X PRIZE

Peter Diamandis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Diamandis

The most important legacy and meaning of the Ansari X PRIZE on its five year anniversary lies in the fact that the event kicked off a new industry.

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Commercial Spaceflight for the Rest of Us -- Congratulations to Virgin Galactic

Peter Diamandis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Diamandis

Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites have rolled out SpaceShipTwo, a new commercial spaceship that will be flown by two pilots with seats for six paying passengers.

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Launching Commercial Space Flight: Part Five -- Brian Binnie Makes History

Peter Diamandis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Diamandis

It was almost possible to forget that I was still driving this spaceship and would have the challenge of bringing it back down to earth.

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Launching Commercial Space Flight: Part Four -- Anousheh Ansari and Her $10 Million Purse

Peter Diamandis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Diamandis

We had been looking for possibilities to go to space and perhaps find a way for others like us with to be able to do it as well. While some options existed, they lacked credibility.

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Launching Commercial Space Flight: Part Two -- Dumitru Popescu Builds His Dream Rocket

Peter Diamandis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Diamandis

I told Burt Rutan, designer of Scaled Composites' SpaceShipOne, in the presence of all the other competitors, that he would win the competition. This was hard for a lot of people to accept, but I was right.

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Launching Commercial Space Flight: Part One - Finding the New Spirit of St. Louis

Peter Diamandis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Diamandis

Since the age of 6, I've always wanted to go to space. So, I studied medicine -- thinking that was my path to orbit, but alas, NASA didn't agree, so I had to find another plan -- a plan that led to the founding of the first X PRIZE.

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My In-Depth Audio Interview with Paul Jansen of McKinsey & Company

Peter Diamandis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Diamandis

I recently had an in-depth interview with Paul Jansen of McKinsey & Company on the origins of X PRIZE and discussed my passion and understanding of how incentive prizes work.

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Guest Blogger, Marthin de Beer: Innovation From Around the World

Peter Diamandis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Diamandis

I've often said that the "wisdom of crowds" will allow us to look beyond our own walls and borders, and enable us to harness new ideas that we may not have known existed in our own backyard.

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