- If you want to, you know, become a billionaire,
help 1,000,000,000 people.
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- Peter Diamandis, you are renowned
as one of the world's great futurists,
and you're the coauthor of a new book called
the Future Is Faster Than You Think with Steven Kotler.
Everyone is familiar, I think, with a lot of the theses
behind your thinking, but I think people are not quite
so focused on another aspect of change
that you bring forward in your book
which is the change brought by migration.
Throughout human history, migration has been a catalyst
for innovation, and you see a number of migrations
that will happen in the 21st century
that will also be forcing from change and also disruption.
- We're gonna see migrations
of the human species out into space.
We're gonna see continued migration from the rural areas
into downtown megacities.
We're gonna see migration into the virtual world
as we start to spend more and more time in a world
which is very future-rich driven by higher
and higher resolution, easier to use virtual reality.
We're gonna see climate migrations.
As, you know, sea levels rise, we're gonna start
to displace people into different areas, and a lot of it,
there's some negative connotations obviously with that,
but that will continue to drive innovation,
and then one of the most interesting
of these five migrations is what I call the migration
to the meta-intelligence.
One of the technologies we speak about that people
don't really understand how far we've come
is connecting the brain to the cloud.
Our neocortex, the 100,000,000,000 neurons,
the 100,000,000,000,000 synoptic connections in our brain.
We are about on the verge of connecting to the cloud.
How do we connect your brain, your sensory and motor cortex
of your brain to the cloud so that
when you think you can Google?
And a lot of these transitions are occurring,
and they're gonna simply increase the speed
that the world is changing
and that we're driving innovation.
- Another one of the great migrations which people
don't focus on so much is space migration.
Right now it seems like science fiction,
but as your book says, it's coming faster than you think.
- Yeah, so in The Future Is Faster Than You Think,
I write about the space migration.
I'm a child of the 60s.
Apollo and Star Trek drove me, and the pace
of space has bene really driven by government budgets.
It's just now that we're seeing this incredible race
between Elon Musk and SpaceX and Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin
where both have the capital and have the intelligence
and team to build a new generation of rockets
and capabilities that are orders of magnitude cheaper
than it was the space shuttle of the Apollo program,
and so I have every confidence that in the next decade,
we are gonna have private companies on the moon.
We are gonna have private companies, if not on Mars,
on the verge of landing on Mars, and all of a sudden,
you know, everything we hold of value on Earth, metals,
minerals, energy, real estate,
is in infinite quantities in space.
You know, I write about this and talk about this
that the next trillionaires will be made in space.
We are the equivalent of the early explorers of the 14
and 1500s looking out to the new world.
It's right now.
Whatever we evolve to as a human species, you know,
100s or 1,000s of years from now, we're gonna look back
at these next two decades as the moment in time
that we move off the planet irreversibly.
It's a beautiful time, and as we do that, we're gonna have
to think about what laws do we take with us?
What cultural norms do we take with us?
Are we gonna reboot new government systems
as we go into space?
It's a tremendous period, and that migration is gonna drive
very rapid innovation and evolution.