Diamandis Abundance

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One of the more popular talks at TED 2012, I caught his glance as he was just starting.

And the ending:

“Between 2010 and 2020, 3 billion minds will come online and join the global conversation. These are voices you have never heard. What will they create and consume in this global economy? They will represent tens of trillions of annual purchasing power.

Consider the Fold It game from the University of Washington, where humans minds compete to figure out the difficult task of protein folding, outperforming supercomputers. What was unsolved in 15 years was solved in 15 days. Who is the best protein folder in the world? A Manchester woman who works as an EA in a rehab clinic by day and at night, she is the world’s best protein folder. That could only happen in our modern, connected world.”

(Here is his video and a TED blog summary)

5 responses to “Diamandis Abundance”

jurvetson

Mar 1, 2012 at 6:31 pm

And the TED folks caught a fan boy in the front row. =)

And I blogged about the pre-release of his book on Abundance

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solerena

Mar 2, 2012 at 4:57 pm

cool book and great video!!! at least somebody on this planet can think straight.

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Chucil

Mar 2, 2012 at 6:10 pm

Nice shot of his glance. Wonder if the people who share the same characteristics, like you and Peter both are in spaceflight, both flied Zero-G, would more quickly sense each other’s presence and get connected when present at the same place. Or you and Peter have telepathy.

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Pieces of Eye

Mar 4, 2012 at 6:20 am

Do you have a list of fav TED talks? Have a quick flight 🙂

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jurvetson

Mar 4, 2012 at 5:11 pm

I liked the tech/science talks and the ones with kinetic beauty or humor…. no surprise. =)

I will try to post photos and links to my favorite TED Talks as they come out online, so you can see them too if you want.

Here is a brilliant remix that just went up. It was created as the conference was underway, so we saw it during the final session.

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