Matthew Santiago's Key Ideas from Abundance
by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler

Bringing the poorest 4 billion people in the world into the global economy will expand markets while unlocking massive human potential.

Mobile technologies, wireless infrastructure, and breakthroughs in health, education, and finance are collectively empowering and transforming the bottom billion.

Innovators and entrepreneurs now have access to do-it-yourself tools for manipulating biology, manufacturing products, building robots, and more.

This democratization of innovation empowers everyday individuals to create solutions and build micro-enterprises.

Tech-empowered people can drive large-scale change.

As the next billion people come online primarily through mobile, new opportunities emerge for crowdsourcing solutions, funding startups, leveraging collective intelligence, and spreading ideas.

Connecting humanity en masse will fuel accelerated innovation, entrepreneurship, and social change.

The pace of innovation and testing is accelerating towards real-time speed, as technologies rapidly build on each other and ideas spread globally and instantly.

Real-time feedback loops drive faster development and testing for everything from products to policies and ideas.

The forces driving abundance are the accelerating rate of technological progress, the power of capitalism and markets, bold entrepreneurs and companies, and visionary individuals striving for bold goals.

Together these forces can exponentially elevate global standards of living while addressing humanity's grand challenges.

Scarcity thinking focuses on zero-sum competition and short-term goals, while abundance focuses on mutual gains and long-term solutions.

Spreading abundance mindsets unlocks more collaborative, innovative, and optimistic thinking to solve global problems.