Peter Diamandis, Creating the Future Through Technology
Paul Farmer CBE, CEO of Mind
Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO of Coursera
Adm. Timothy J. Keating, USN (Ret.) and Brig. Gen. Robert S. Spalding III, USAF (Ret.)
An Update on Therapies and VaccinesFrom mining asteroids to commercializing space exploration and developing large-scale genome sequencing, Peter Diamandis is an international pioneer in innovation. During a Talks at GS session, he discusses his revolutionary projects and creating the future through technology.
On incentivizing innovation: “We do our best work when we compete, right? We compete in sports, we compete in business – it would seem natural that we’d compete to solve problems, too. We’re just wired that way. [At XPRIZE Foundation], we put out a very clear goal, and the first person to pull this off wins. And society wins because we uplift everybody.”
On asteroids as an economic engine for space travel: “What’s really driven humanity to open up frontier after frontier has been resources. Over the last 15 years since 2000, there’s been a population of asteroids recently discovered that come very close to the Earth. You can extract fuel from these and have fuel depots for fueling the future economy of space.”