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October 18, 2007
Peter Diamandis: The Best Way to Predict the Future...Posted by Therese Laux, Blog Team, at 12:02 PM | General Session Keynotes | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
If you are of the generation where Saturday mornings included watching "The Monkees" and an Apollo lift off, Peter Diamandis is your guy. Scratch that, Houston. Diamandis is a man for all of us. What person in education would not appreciate his philosophy of changing our thought process from thinking "we can't do it," to "make it happen?"
Young Peter dreamed of being an Astronaunt. He thought his best shot at realizing that dream was through a medical degree. Possibilities and probabilities set in, and after seeing the odds of him making the NBA were better than getting in the elite crew of NASA space cowboys, Diamandis went about getting his own ride to the stars.
Don't let me ruin the story for you. Get your kids turned on to science and space travel. Check it out for yourself at http://www.goZeroG.com. While you're out surfing, Google these big ideas: X Prize Foundation, SpaceShipOne and Lunar Xprize.
Don't forget, breakthroughs always start as crazy ideas.
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