The X PRIZE Foundation's Peter Diamandis joins Morning Joe to discuss "Abundance," a book he co-authored with Steven Kotler which discusses how technology can raise the basic standard of living for everyone on the planet.
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March 01, 2012
March 01, 2012
The X-Prize foundation now offers similar prizes for other achievements. If you know how to build a car that gets 100 miles per gallon, or can design a rover that sends back pictures from the moon, get in touch.
March 01, 2012
Onstage at TED2012, Peter Diamandis makes a case for optimism -- that we'll invent, innovate and create ways to solve the challenges that loom over us. "I’m not saying we don’t have our set of problems; we surely do. But ultimately, we knock them down...
February 27, 2012
As these examples demonstrate, Messrs. Diamandis and Kotler think that individual innovators can and will make huge differences to human living standards. Many of their book's fascinating examples are drawn from the world of business.
February 23, 2012
The ultimate goal is replicating the full-body diagnostic “tricorder” from the “Star Trek” TV show, a goal that is being encouraged by a $10 million prize put up by Qualcomm, the smartphone chip maker, through the X-Prize Foundation.
February 22, 2012
The exabyte story and many other examples of accelerating returns are chronicled in "Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think" by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler. Mr. Diamandis is the chairman and chief executive of the X Prize Foundation...
February 01, 2012
"Healthcare today certainly falls far short of the vision portrayed in Star Trek," Paul Jacobs, the head of Qualcomm, says. But by partnering with the X Prize Foundation, his firm hopes to drive medical technology in that direction.
January 31, 2012
Fred Giovannitti is that rarity: a man who divides his time between two extremely disparate careers. Giovannitti makes his living giving tattoos to discerning customers in Las Vegas, but he also spends a considerable amount of time as the creative...
January 31, 2012
But this is Peter Diamandis, the fast-talking, hand-chopping impresario of the tech and space worlds. “The system is broken, access to health care is inconvenient, inefficient, bureaucratic—at worst, it’s even inaccurate,” he intones, striding on the...
December 13, 2011
In 2004, thousands showed up in Mojave, California for the triumphant launch of SpaceShipOne as part of the Ansari X PRIZE competition. If you had asked them what they viewed as the next big challenge in commercial spaceflight, many would have said: “...
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