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A few months ago, we had an amazingly popular podcast episode with Steven Kotler, author of “Decoding The Science of Ultimate Human Performance“.
During that podcast, Steven mentioned another book he co-wrote with Peter Diamandis (famous founder of the X-Prize Foundation) called “Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think“. Frankly, I thought this other book sounded like a bit of an airy-fairy, positive thinking, Everything Is Awesome (cue Lego movie soundtrack here) type of a book.
But then, over the course of just one week, three more people recommended this book to me, including SEALFit commander Mark Divine. So I figured I should probably read it. And I did.
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think is based on a contrarian view that exponentially growing technologies and other powerful forces are conspiring to better the lives of billions on our planet, that the gap between the privileged few and hardscrabble majority is closing fast, and that this is drastically affecting human access to everything from water to food, energy, healthcare, education, and freedom.
In today's podcast, you're going to learn why Steven believes that the future of health is better than you may think, and how you can help make all this a reality. During our discussion you'll learn:
-What the pyramid of abundance is…
-What Steven means about your stress levels when he says “if it bleeds, it leads”…
-How you can grow enough food to feed 9 billion people using vertical farming, skyscrapers “growing food in water”…
-Creative ways to get the world's population more protein…
-Where “synthetic life” like algae come in for creating biofuel…
-A special new kind of toilet that can power your house with your own feces…
-How a Star-Trek like Tricorder and a Lab On A Chip would work…
-Whether we can actually use genetics to stop obesity…
-What the next steps are, and how can you can take action…
Do you have questions, comments or feedback about the book “Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think“? Do you disagree with Steven? Leave your thoughts below!
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Hi Ben, not my favorite post just because your guest is assuming only one possible future, the desire one. Anyway, greetings from Mexico City.
This was one of your best podcast ever. Thanks for bringing Steve back on the show for this interview. I was thinking today as I was picking up the dog poop from my yard about how much energy could be harvested from domestic pets. What about all the poop from stock yards? I would think that burning the poop from our food supply would solve a lot of problems.
Wow! This episode got the creative juices flowing! There seems to be so much opportunity to create food locally (cut down on the carbon footprint) while at the same time keeping prices down. There are many buildings are out there that are abandoned or for sale that could be repurporsed for vertical farming to both improve the health, economy, and environment in an area.