Commentary
From http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_diamandis_abundance_is_our_future.html
Progress over last 100
years
So let's look at what this last century
has been to see where we're going. Over the last hundred
years, the
average human lifespan has more than doubled, average per capita income adjusted for inflation around the world has tripled.
Childhood mortality has come down a factor of
10. Add to that the cost of
food, electricity, transportation, communication have dropped 10 to
1,000-fold. Steve Pinker has showed
us that, in fact, we're
living during the most peaceful time ever in human history.
And Charles Kenny that global literacy has gone from 25 percent to over
80 percent in the last 130 years. We truly are living in an
extraordinary time. And many people
forget this.
Think of this, in the western world today, the majority of people
under the poverty line still have
electricity, water, toilets, refrigerators, television, mobile
phones, air
conditioning and cars. The wealthiest
robber barons of the last century, the emperors on this planet, could have never dreamed of such luxuries.
Use of Technology and
Growth of Cyberusers
The cellphone in your
pocket is literally a million times
cheaper and a thousand times faster than
a supercomputer of the '70s. A
Somali warrior has better technology and access to knowledge than the USA
president 30 years ago!
7 Billion people on planet… currently 2 billion
have internet access. In next 20 years this will go to 5b…. that means 3
billion new minds and ideaswill join us in cyberworld, and we will be able to
communicate with them!! This growth will come mainly from India and
China, and this is where one should focus ones energy!
Scarcity and abundance
In the 19 Century – Aluminium most scarce product on earth…
but represented 8% of earths surface… however bound by other compounds….
Technology developed to create pure aluminium in abundance and now used in
every household as a disposable.
Project this to current scarce products - water and energy…. It is abundant… no
shortage… the challenge is - how do you extract this from the elements to
make it usable… with technology and innovation, finance and strategy, we will
be able to provide a solution, that will make both abundant and fit for human
and living beings consumption.
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.
We are in a world of abundance – not of
scarcity. The next 10 years will be awesome!!
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