what’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 are 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 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 I’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 breakthroughs 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 future so what is the world look like a
[00:01:03] 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 100 years so we’re going to go back to the year 1923 so in 1923 there were 13 million cars on the road there’s about 300 million today gas was at 14 cents the Ford Model T cost a whopping 290 bucks a first class stamp 2 cents
[00:02:00] 40% of homes had electricity and 35% had a telephone 1923 the world population was 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 news from the world in the 1923 the tomb of King Tut was opened for the first time Babe Ruth homered 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
[00:03:00] 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 but before we do that I want to remind you what the Innovations were in 1922 and myself and my team we scrub looking for every breakthrough and Innovation back in 1922 there were six the water were invented the convertible manual hardtop the electric blender vomite the Eskimo Pie 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
[00:04:01] added Clarence Birdseye invented frozen food in 1923 a big innovation sound on film phonofilm was invented uh Zarin invented the television in 1923 Firestone unveiled the first production balloon tire and Garrett Morgan panted the threep 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 kulage gave the first national address on broadcast radio just 100 years ago number 10 stable flight from a rotorcraft and number 11 Herbert dorsy invents the first practical
[00:05:00] pedometer determining ocean depth and as a pilot I love this one Airway beacons replace bonfires to guide flying Pilots all right what I’d like you to do if you could is please stand I’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 world to the year 2033 if you close your eyes for me now I’m going to read you 10 headlines they’re headlines predicted by The Faculty on stage I 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
[00:06:00] is the dream of Salon generative AI enables the highest level personalized tutoring for every child on the planet for free in their native language headline two the dream of Tony Robbins Humanity’s second Green Revolution is now in full swing Ai and biotech have converged to bring Fe food security to 2 billion hungry Souls we feeding the world World headline number three the dream of Jaclyn novag grats new solar and battery technologies spread like cudu across Africa providing every village with abundant electricity headline four the dream of Jim Min deaths due to heart attacks plummet by tenfold as early detection saves lives on a mass scale headline number five the dream of
[00:07:02] 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 kwell cloud-based AI now exceeds human intelligence human level AI as a service is available to anyone on a 6G connection headline number seven is the dream of Regina Global bof foundaries Pump out billions of vaccines and shut down every pandemic headline number eight the dream of David Sinclair age reversal epigenetic reprogramming demonstrated in humans clinically reversing age by at least 20 healthy years ushering an age
[00:08:00] of longevity escape velocity number nine the dreams of Elon Musk more than 50 million multi-purpose 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 going to drive trillion dollar companies trillion 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
[00:09:01] companies you know the things we talked about on the 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 but we could steer the direction we wanted intentionally this is the power we have now this is our purpose our mission there’s no velocity switch no onoff switch this technology our responsibility as Leaders is to guide it to create the desired future we want so
[00:10:01] 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 yes 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 Comm commitment of our passionate Minds to go and transform to go and create so as you head home as you head onto the 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 right 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 absolutely can
[00:11:00] we solve them can we solve them absolutely the tools we have now outstrip what 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 so 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 TP is to inspire and guide entrepreneurs to create 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 can create so I thank you and welcome to
[00:12:05] year 11 and I’m super psyched to have you guys in here year 12 and now I want to hear from all of you so first give it up for yourselves thank you so [Music] [Applause] [Music] much