Exponential Wisdom Notes Episode 27 – Evidence of Abundance 

Dan Sullivan and Peter Diamandis Podcast where they discuss evidence of growing abundance in the world today. 

• For example – the cost of Bandwidth. What recently cost thousands of dollars is completely free now. 
• The biggest evidence of abundance is in the developing world. Within 20 years we will have the means to take all of the world out of absolute poverty. 
• The quality of life is improving at an extraordinary rate. 
• In your mind, keep a set of constant principles, that will hold true under any conditions. That way, in a changing world you will have no insecurity of the shift. 
• Look for things that are being digitized. Anything that can be or is being digitized, will be disrupted. 
• When digitized, most things will not be apparent to people at first. 
• Suddenly it will reach critical mass and explode everywhere. 
• It will then demomotize 
• And finally democratize – become more available to many more people. 
• Child Labor is becoming globally obsolete because of robots. 
• Cost of food has dropped consistently since the 1960’s
• As a result, we are spending more money on going out to eat – a sign of increased prosperity. 
• Due to technological spread, the cognitive capacity of the planet is growing dramatically. 
• By feeding impoverished nations better, you are developing a global cognitive surplus. 
• Infant mortality rates have halved over the last five years. This is the direct impact of technology. 
• Africa – “the rising billion” 
• Better health and education always leads to a direct drop in birthrate. 
• Morocco used to average 7.8 kids per family. With bigger health and education, they are dropping to 2.8
• Silicon Valley sees a future with underpopulation problems. 
• Child Labor disproportionately effects girls. The single factor that improves society is female education. Right after clean water in consensus. 
• Because women educate their children. 
• Teenage birthrates have dropped. 
• Perception of danger goes up exponentially with people who watch the news. 
• The media does not capture life as it is. It makes it seem like a world of endless killing and violence. 
• This is likely the safest period in human history, but not according to the media. 
• As a human being, we are programmed with a negativity bias. 
• With the birth of the Internet, the mainstream media is dying. Advertisers losing interest. 
• The media of the future will have less violence. 
• Today, they are getting more extreme in the media because they are more desperate for attention.
• Global literary in 500 years has gone from 10% to over 95%
• People are more protective of their children because they are a bigger investment, and they have fewer of them.