A Meditation About the Future | Bonus Episode

0:00What's in your heart? The speed of change is coming at a lightning speed. This is the power we have now. This is our purpose, our mission. Our responsibility is to guide it, to create the desired future we want. And that's the world we can create. The world's biggest problems, the world's biggest business opportunities. There is no problem we cannot solve. This is the most extraordinary time ever to be alive. And don't let anyone tell you it's not. Hey everybody, I want to share with you a special moment that I love doing at the end of abundance 360 every year. This is the closing segment of A360 2023.

0:41I'm going to begin by looking back 100 years at the year 1923. What was the world like 100 years ago? What were the true innovations the breakthrough was occurring during that calendar year? And then I'm going to take you forward, not 100 years into the future, but just 10 years into the future. So what is the world look like? A hopeful, compelling and abundant future, just 10 years out. And as you hear this meditation about the future, follow along, close your eyes, imagine the world that we're creating. All right, let's jump in. I want to take you on two time journeys. I don't think there's any way in the world for us to really appreciate what's going on today until we look back a hundred years.

1:37So we're going to go back to the year 1923. So in 1923 there were 13 million cars in the road. There's about 300 million today. Gas was at 14 cents. The The Ford Model T cost a whopping $290, a first class stamp, $2 .40 % of homes had electricity and 35 % had a telephone.

2:101923, the world population was $2 billion. Today we're just cracking $8 billion. Life expectancy for men at 56, women at 58, women led the world back then, they still do today. Let's go and hit some of the front page news from the world in 1923. The tomb of King Tut was opened for the first time. Bay Bruth, homeward for the first time in Yankee Stadium. The Hollywood land sign came online. The word land was eliminated some 1949, so just Hollywood sign. Time magazine came online 100 years ago. So, the part that really gets me to understand the extraordinary world we're living in today is looking at the innovations from 100 years ago.

3:15But before we do that, I want to remind you what the innovations were in 1922. And myself, my team, we scrub looking for every breakthrough and innovation. Back in 1922, there were six. The water skis were invented. the convertible manual hardtop, the electric blender, the Vegemite, the Eskimo Pi, and vitamin E, was discovered. Just six. In 1923, a year later, we doubled. It's going to start getting harder. So let's look at the 12. Shik invents the first electric shaver. Remember, in these years, everything manual was being electrified, just like today, everything that didn't have AI, AI is being added.

4:02Clarence Bird's Eye invented frozen food in 1923, a big innovation. Sound on film, Fono film was invented. Zwarkin invented the television in 1923. Firestone unveiled the first production balloon tire and Garrett Morgan panted the three -position traffic signal with a yellow light. Insulin entered mass production in 1923. The neon light was brought to the US from Paris just to make it a little more lively in our towns. Number nine, Calvin Coolidge gave the first national dressed on broadcast radio, just 100 years ago. Number ten, stable flight from the rotor craft. and number 11, Herbert Dorsey, invents the first practical pedometer, determining ocean depth.

5:03And as a pilot, I love this one. Airway Beacons replace bonfires to guide flying pilots.

5:15All right, what I'd like you to do, if you could, is please stand.

5:24I'm going to take you in another time journey, but this time not into the past, this time into the future. This time not 100 years, but just 10 years to the year 2033. If you close your eyes for me now, I'm going to read you 10 headlines. Their headlines are predicted by the faculty on stage. Want you to think about them? Do they seem crazy? Or something that might be happening and you might be part of? The first headline is the Dream of Salcon. Generative AI enables the highest level personalized tutoring for every child on the planet for free in their native language. Headline 2 – Dream of Tony Robbins Humanity's second green revolution is an out -and -full swing.

6:22AI and biotech have converged to bring food security to 2 billion hungry souls. We're feeding the world. Headline number 3 – Dream of Jacqueline Novigratz New solar and battery technology spread like Kudzu or Cross Africa. providing every village with abundant electricity. Headline 4, the dream of Jim Min. Deaths due to heart attacks plummet by tenfold as early detection saves lives on a mass scale.

6:59Headline number five, the dream of Andrew Yang. Universal basic income has become adopted by all 40 US states, AIs and robots performing full -time equivalent human jobs are being taxed to fund the UBI program. Headline number six, the Dream of Ray Kurzweil, Cloud -based AI, now exceed human intelligence. Human level AIs as a service is available to anyone on a 6G connection. The first question. Headline number seven is the dream of Regina Global BioFoundries pump out billions of vaccines and shut down every pandemic. Headline number eight, the dream of Davidson Claire. Age reversal, epigenetic reprogramming demonstrated in humans clinically reversing age by at least 20 healthy years ushering in age of longevity escape velocity.

8:03Number nine, the dreams of Elon Musk, more than 50 million multipurpose humanoid robots are now in use. In the US such robots have spurred significant debate in new labor laws. And headline number 10, three companies achieve commercial scale fusion, offering humanity an unlimited supply of energy to drive increasing standards and increasing global living. Open your eyes and look about you. These are breakthroughs that are going to drive trillion dollar companies, trillion dollar industries. You here in the room, see it coming. You know it's coming. Others will be in disbelief. Are you going to use this view of the future to drive your MTP, your moonshots, your next companies?

9:01You know, the things we talked about on this stage were not even possible a year ago. The speed of change is coming at a lightning speed. Ultimately, it's through the connections with each other partnering to play a bigger game to go after the grandest moonshots possible. We create the future. The future doesn't create itself. As I said, when we opened the whole purpose of creating singularity, university, and abundance 360 was to create a conversation and a community and a time where we could not just let the future happen to us, where we could steer the direction we wanted intentionally. This is the power we have now.

9:46This is our purpose, our mission. There's no velocity switch, no on -off switch, this technology. Our responsibility as leaders is to guide it, to create the desired future we want. So I invite you here now, and in the year ahead, please, play full out, right, as you have. Take this energy because I hope you realize you've forgotten about all the problems in the world during these last four days, right? Haven't you? Yes. And we've been living in an amazing world, haven't we? Yes. Where there is nothing impossible, where our future is limited only by our commitment of our passionate minds to go and transform, to go and create.

10:36So as you head home, as you head on to this stage, please bring this with you, bring this belief that there is no problem we cannot solve. The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities. This is the most extraordinary time ever to be alive. And don't let anyone tell you it's not. Do we have problems? Absolutely. Can we solve them? Can we solve them? Absolutely. The tools we have now outstrip with the robber barons, the presidents, the wealthiest people on the planet had just 10 and 20, 30 years ago, you have them as individuals, all the knowledge in the world, the computational power.

11:20So question is what are you going to do with that? What's in your heart? What are you going to wake up with every morning? Every morning, my MTP is to inspire and guide entrepreneurs to pay a hopeful, compelling and abundant future for humanity to support you to create that. Because a world in which every human has a hopeful, compelling, and abundant future is a beautiful world to live in. It's a world that no one wants to go to war. It's a world where every mom and every dad has the grandest dreams for their kids. And that's the world we can create. So I thank you and welcome to your 11th and I'm super psyched to have you guys here at your 12th and now I want to hear from all of you.

12:15So first give it up for yourself. Thank you so much.