Peter Diamandis operates at the intersection of exponential technology and longevity. He co-founded Singularity University with Ray Kurzweil to educate leaders about accelerating change, and created the XPRIZE Foundation to incentivize breakthrough solutions to humanity's grand challenges. His book "Abundance" argued that exponential technologies will solve scarcity, while "The Future Is Faster Than You Think" mapped the convergence of AI, biotech, and other fields. Diamandis has increasingly focused on longevity, co-founding Fountain Life for proactive health diagnostics and Celularity for cellular therapeutics. He embodies the optimistic transhumanist position: technology is advancing fast enough that radical life extension is an engineering problem, not a fantasy.
Key contributions
- Founded XPRIZE to incentivize breakthrough innovation
- Co-founded Singularity University with Kurzweil
- Author of "Abundance" and "The Future Is Faster Than You Think"
- Co-founded Fountain Life and Celularity for longevity
Quotes (1)
“We are living in the most transformative time in human history. Technologies are converging and enabling each other.”
paraphrased · 2020