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There was a Gallup poll that said something like 70 percent of people in the United States do not enjoy their job - they work to put food on the table and get insurance to survive. So, what happens when technology can do all that work for us and allow us to actually do what we enjoy with our time?
The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines of space.
Human exploration is something that's been going on for thousands of years, and the models that worked 500 years ago are likely to work again today.
When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?'
Government research has to go through peer review.
Many entrepreneurs that made their fortunes by founding successful technology companies want to give back and solve the world's biggest problems on a grand scale. There is tremendous opportunity in this approach.
All of us are linear thinkers. We evolved in a world that was local and linear. You know, back 100,000, 200,000, millions of years ago, when we were evolving as a human species, nothing changed. You know, the life of your great-grandparents, you, your kids - it was the same. And so we are local and linear thinkers.
I think the folks who go after grand challenges are impatient.
Now, we connect via Skype or Google+ Hangout and see our friends' and loved ones' faces live.
In 1980, it cost just under $600 to take a round-trip flight within the United States.
Since the age of 6, I've always wanted to go to space.
I collect a lot of data. We all do.
Online games for data-mining have a short virtual shelf life. People get bored, especially if the game seems stagnant.
In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.
Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what they've already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy - not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward.
In 1900, 180-plus out of every 1,000 African-American babies died.
Incentive prizes work.
The fact that the Virgin logo was on the side of SpaceShipOne on October 4th, 2004 was fantastic.
Collective management will build companies - not top-down decision-making.
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