YOUR ROADMAP FOR LEADING DISRUPTIVE CHANGE

By Peter Diamandis

Take a second to appreciate how extraordinary our world is today.

News travels the globe in an instant. Music, movies, games, communication, and knowledge are ever-available, for free on always-connected devices.

From AI to biotechnology, powerful technologies that were once only available to huge organizations, governments, and the richest and most elite are more accessible and affordable than ever before thanks to digitization.

Think about it: a child in Zimbabwe can Google any information they want or even video conference with someone on the other side of the world—for free. 

And the information available to that child is identical to the information available to Larry Page, Co-founder of Google.

This continuing technological progress gives us an opportunity to uplift every man, woman, and child on Earth.

How does such a world come about? 

The essence is explained in a framework I call the Six Ds of Exponentials.

Think of the Six Ds as a roadmap that you can use to contextualize technological change and the opportunities it creates. 

As an exponential entrepreneur and leader, you want to master this roadmap. Understanding how to use the Six Ds and developing an Exponential Mindset are key focuses of my year-round Mastermind and Executive Program Abundance360.

So, how will you use the Six Ds to create a world of possibility and abundance?

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Scientists are starting to take warp drives seriously, Especially one specific concept

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It’s hard living in a relativistic Universe, where even the nearest stars are so far away and the speed of light is absolute. It is little wonder then why science fiction franchises routinely employ FTL (Faster-than-Light) as a plot device.

Push a button, press a petal, and that fancy drive system – whose workings no one can explain – will send us to another location in space-time.

However, in recent years, the scientific community has become understandably excited and skeptical about claims that a particular concept – the Alcubierre Warp Drive – might actually be feasible.

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Ideas are a dime a dozen. Here are twelve problems that could lead to a billion-dollar startup

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Next generation technology in the home for an aging population.

Startup founders can often find themselves working on an idea that sounds plausible, but does not provide a solution to a problem people care about in a meaningful way. Y Combinator founder and investor Paul Graham says that often, these startups are born from individuals who are simply “trying to think of startup ideas” and not looking for problems. Graham calls these ideas “made-up” or “sitcom” startup ideas, as they sound like something a writer for a television sitcom would come up with when creating a script for a character that had a business idea. The idea seems possible, even though in reality it is bad and no one would use or buy it.

Take a look around at the products and services you are currently using and surrounded by. Why are they there? Well, it’s because they are solving a problem or filling a need you would otherwise be experiencing. This is how all great inventions and startup businesses are born, from a problem or need. From electricity, to the telephone, to the Internet, and more recently to Uber and AirBnb, great businesses are built on big problems.

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The future of brain-computer interfaces and the human machine

 

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The melding of humanity with the technology we have created has begun…

We are well on our way as Homo sapiens to becoming a species that fully merges technology with our organic bodies. In some ways, we’ve been getting at this for centuries already, beginning with the first use of eyeglasses, at the end of the thirteenth century in Italy, to improve vision by making it easy for someone to wear two magnifying lenses on the bridge of their nose.

But ever since the invention of the computer and the first human-machine interfaces were born (HMIs), a dream of many technologists has been to create direct connections between computers and the human brain. These brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) — also known as Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMIs) — would eliminate the lag inherent in the translation between thought → physical action → computer response. BCIs also allow people who cannot perform physical actions required for HMIs to bypass that real-world step and directly control powerful computer tools with the electrical impulses in their brains.

One of the dreams is that BCIs will eventually place the entire canon of human knowledge within the realm of immediate recall: No more searching the internet via typing or voice commands needed. In a near future, we will be able to think about what we need and pull whatever relevant information is available directly from a cloud and into the forefront of our minds.

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Magic Leap wants to build AR “Layers” over the entire earth

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 Augmented reality startup Magic Leap wants to merge the digital and the physical worlds.

In October, CEO Rony Abovitz first shared the idea of the “Magicverse,” a series of digital layers that would exist in AR over the physical world.

On Saturday, the company elaborated on the concept with a blog post and new interview — and its vision of the future is one in which the line between the physical and digital realms blurs until it almost disappears.

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How to want what you’ve got in a world of infinite choice

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“Choose things that are good enough, and do not worry about whether they’re the best.”

Psychologist Barry Schwartz is best known for his immensely popular TED Talk and his book The Paradox of Choice. He recently joined Ryan Hawk, host of The Learning Leader Show, to discuss what having too much of a good thing means for us, and how to stay engaged in an ever-changing, digitized world.

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This bizarre-looking font helps you remember what you read

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The half-finished letters are designed to make us more engaged with what we’re reading, which increases memory retention.

Could the shape of the words also shape your ability to remember them? MIT

Cramming for exams, learning new languages, and remembering your to-do list can be tough — but a team of Australian researchers think they can help. They’ve developed a font called “Sans Forgetica” that uses the principles of cognitive science to help readers better remember their typed notes.

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Pioneering ‘liquid air’ project can help store excess electricity

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A pioneering project in north-west England will turn air into liquid for energy storage to help electricity grids cope with a growing amount of wind and solar power.

The world’s first full-scale “liquid air” plant is based on a technology that advocates say is cheaper and able to provide power for longer periods than lithium-ion batteries.

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Boring Company will prioritize pedestrian transportation over cars, says Musk

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When Elon Musk first unveiled The Boring Company, its plan was to create a network of underground tunnels used to transport vehicles at high speeds to help bypass and eliminate traffic. Now the founder has come out with an updated vision, saying that The Boring Company’s tunnels will first focus on transporting pedestrians and cyclists first, essentially serving as a new form of mass transit, before it begins moving personal vehicles.

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