Podcast

After looking through the list of podcasts on iTunes I decided to subscribe to How To (HD), The Public Speaker’s Quick and Dirty Tips for improving your communication, Ted Talks skills, Before and After how to design cool stuff, and Fitness Boost.  One podcast I found interesting was on Ted Talks. The speaker was Peter Diamandis and the title of his talk was “Abundance is our future”.  An interesting thought that was brought up by Peter was that this generation has the perception that our world is in disarray and that the future is grim.   What he wanted to make clear was there has never been a point in history that has had the abundance of growth that we are currently experiencing.  A few stats that I found intriguing was that in the last 100 years our life spans have increased 2 times, income 3 times, child mortality has decreased 10 times, and in the last 130 years global literacy has gone from 25% to 80%.  We are actually living in the most peaceful time in the world’s history.  The future is not only bright, but is expanding by leaps and bounds.  Mr. Diamandis shared how technology is expanding at rates never seen and that what we perceive as worries today will be insignificant in the future.  This podcast was very encouraging and made me feel very confident for our future.