X Prize

The Soil Will Save Us

by Kristin Ohlson  · 14 Oct 2014

carbon storage and that it was too hard to measure the carbon accrual anyway. Organizers of the challenge suggest that it’s something like an “X Prize” for farmers and ranchers, although the award dollars come not from a billionaire but from fees paid by the participants. The hope is that this

This Machine Kills Secrets: Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers

by Andy Greenberg  · 12 Sep 2012  · 461pp  · 125,845 words

software. Now this hacker’s challenge is to fix, rather than merely demonstrate, that epic problem: Like most DARPA initiatives, CINDER functions as an open, X-Prize-style invitation for ideas. While Mudge won’t reveal the project’s budget, qualifying DARPA-funded projects typically receive anywhere from hundreds of thousands to

Smart Cities, Digital Nations

by Caspar Herzberg  · 13 Apr 2017

Is Better Than You Think, has been a lightning rod for both hope and praise and unbridled criticism. As an entrepreneur and CEO of the X Prize Foundation, he is an unapologetic advocate for technology and its benefits to humanity. Reading his book is a superb antidote to arguments that condemn civilization

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.S. Green Building Council, 78 W Wang Lijun, 112 Washington, D.C., 184 Water, 197 Worksites, remote, 166–67, 201–2 World Bank, 171 X X Prize Foundation, 196 Z Zhejiang University, 114, 203 ZTE Corporation, 117 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THE IDEA FOR THIS BOOK was born out of my desire to tell the

The Capitalist Manifesto

by Johan Norberg  · 14 Jun 2023  · 295pp  · 87,204 words

such innovations without prize competitions. It should also be noted that many of the most productive prize competitions have been established privately, such as the X Prize Foundation. 27. ‘The world’s most pointless rocket has been launched at last’, The Economist, 16 November 2022. 7. China, paper tiger 1. Ronald Coase

Frugal Innovation: How to Do Better With Less

by Jaideep Prabhu Navi Radjou  · 15 Feb 2015  · 400pp  · 88,647 words

employing jugaad-style thinking. Today the entrepreneurial spirit of your very own employees, customers, and partners – empowered by new technologies – can literally change the world. X PRIZE has proven the value of jugaad by leveraging this bottom-up approach of “better, faster, cheaper” to the point of sending a man into space

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, Jugaad Innovation, articulates how you can start to accomplish amazing things on a shoestring. It is a vital read.’ – Peter H. Diamandis, Founder and Chairman, X PRIZE Foundation ‘Jugaad Innovation throws cold water in the faces of CEOs, reminding them of the immense power of grassroots, do-it-yourself, cheap, quick, simple

Space 2.0

by Rod Pyle  · 2 Jan 2019  · 352pp  · 87,930 words

Unity. This modern craft is patterned after a decade of pioneering work by Burt Rutan, the man who built a rocketplane to win the Ansari X Prize. Rutan won the multimillion-dollar cash award in 2004 for flying SpaceShipOne twice in one week to the edge of space. He subsequently merged his

Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration

by Buzz Aldrin and Leonard David  · 1 Apr 2013  · 183pp  · 51,514 words

Space In 1998 I formally organized the ShareSpace Foundation, asking my good friends and fellow space supporters actor Tom Hanks and Peter Diamandis, Chairman of X Prize Foundation, to serve on an advisory board for the group. The foundation’s mission is to open the space frontier to all by educating new

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moon? If so, can we see evidence of adaptation to the harsh lunar environment? In May 2012 NASA and the X Prize Foundation of Playa Vista, California, announced that the Google Lunar X Prize, a $30 million competition for the first privately funded team to send a robot to the moon, is also recognizing

How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

by Ray Kurzweil  · 13 Nov 2012  · 372pp  · 101,174 words

on Earth, and how we think about our future. If you care about any of these, read this book!” —Peter H. Diamandis, chairman and CEO, X PRIZE; executive chairman, Singularity University; author of the New York Times bestseller Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think HOW TO CREATE A MIND ALSO

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), in which he describes the “life of man” as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” For a modern perspective, the recent book Abundance (2012), by X-Prize Foundation founder (and cofounder with me of Singularity University) Peter Diamandis and science writer Steven Kotler, documents the extraordinary ways in which life today has

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

by David Kushner  · 2 Jan 2003  · 240pp  · 109,474 words

amateur rocketry scene: the people who felt that NASA was nothing more than a trucking company, the ones who were competing for a $10 million “X Prize” to launch a ship into outer space with three people onboard. But what really appealed to him was the engineering. The timing couldn’t have

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-style craft complete with a bucket seat in the middle for him or his wife, Anna. Next up: maybe a shot at the $10 million X Prize, which required the winner to launch three people into orbit and back two times within fourteen days. Those who knew Carmack expected him to have

Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization

by Vaclav Smil  · 16 Dec 2013  · 396pp  · 117,897 words

and microprocessors. There are other examples of astonishing claims of future dematerialization that can be contrasted with efforts to further expand material consumption. Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize will award $10 million for the design of a portable (maximum weight of 5 lbs) device “capable of capturing key health metrics and diagnosing a

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, US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC. Princen, T., Maniates, M. and Conca, K. (eds) (2002) Confronting Consumption, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. Qualcomm (2013) Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize, http://www.qualcommtricorderxprize.org/competition-details/overview (accessed 23 May 2013). Rafiqul, I., Weber, C., Lehmann, B. and Voss, A. (2005) Energy efficiency improvements in

Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives

by Michael Specter  · 14 Apr 2009  · 281pp  · 79,958 words

The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation Is the Key to an Abundant Future

by Jeff Booth  · 14 Jan 2020  · 180pp  · 55,805 words

Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future

by John Brockman  · 18 Jan 2011  · 379pp  · 109,612 words

How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance

by Parag Khanna  · 11 Jan 2011  · 251pp  · 76,868 words

Frommer's New Mexico

by Lesley S. King  · 2 Jan 1999  · 420pp  · 219,075 words

The Moon: A History for the Future

by Oliver Morton  · 1 May 2019  · 319pp  · 100,984 words

Makers

by Chris Anderson  · 1 Oct 2012  · 238pp  · 73,824 words

Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs

by Gina Keating  · 10 Oct 2012  · 347pp  · 91,318 words

Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World

by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott  · 9 May 2016  · 515pp  · 126,820 words

Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy

by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake  · 7 Nov 2017  · 346pp  · 89,180 words

Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room

by David Weinberger  · 14 Jul 2011  · 369pp  · 80,355 words

Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding--And How We Can Improve the World Even More

by Charles Kenny  · 31 Jan 2011  · 272pp  · 71,487 words

Southwest USA Travel Guide

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Googled: The End of the World as We Know It

by Ken Auletta  · 1 Jan 2009  · 532pp  · 139,706 words

Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley

by Corey Pein  · 23 Apr 2018  · 282pp  · 81,873 words

Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy

by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake  · 4 Apr 2022  · 338pp  · 85,566 words

Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence

by Robert Bryce  · 16 Mar 2011  · 415pp  · 103,231 words

The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies

by Jason Fagone  · 25 Sep 2017  · 592pp  · 152,445 words

The New Gold Rush: The Riches of Space Beckon!

by Joseph N. Pelton  · 5 Nov 2016  · 321pp  · 89,109 words

In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969

by Francis French, Colin Burgess and Walter Cunningham  · 1 Jun 2010  · 628pp  · 170,668 words

Building Habitats on the Moon: Engineering Approaches to Lunar Settlements

by Haym Benaroya  · 12 Jan 2018  · 571pp  · 124,448 words

Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

by Benjamin R. Barber  · 1 Jan 2007  · 498pp  · 145,708 words

An Optimist's Tour of the Future

by Mark Stevenson  · 4 Dec 2010  · 379pp  · 108,129 words

Some Remarks

by Neal Stephenson  · 6 Aug 2012  · 335pp  · 107,779 words

Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

by Anthony M. Townsend  · 29 Sep 2013  · 464pp  · 127,283 words

The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands

by Eric Topol  · 6 Jan 2015  · 588pp  · 131,025 words

MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom

by Tony Robbins  · 18 Nov 2014  · 825pp  · 228,141 words

Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better

by Clive Thompson  · 11 Sep 2013  · 397pp  · 110,130 words

The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler  · 28 Jan 2020  · 501pp  · 114,888 words

Come Fly With Us: NASA's Payload Specialist Program

by Melvin Croft, John Youskauskas and Don Thomas  · 1 Feb 2019  · 609pp  · 159,043 words

The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance

by Steven Kotler  · 4 Mar 2014  · 330pp  · 88,445 words

The Deep Learning Revolution (The MIT Press)

by Terrence J. Sejnowski  · 27 Sep 2018

Interplanetary Robots

by Rod Pyle

The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs That Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . And What You Can Do Right Now

by Sergey Young  · 23 Aug 2021  · 326pp  · 88,968 words

Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking

by Michael Bhaskar  · 2 Nov 2021

MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World

by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams  · 28 Sep 2010  · 552pp  · 168,518 words

Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age

by Steven Johnson  · 14 Jul 2012  · 184pp  · 53,625 words

Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure

by Tim Harford  · 1 Jun 2011  · 459pp  · 103,153 words

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

by Ashlee Vance  · 18 May 2015  · 370pp  · 129,096 words

Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer

by Duncan J. Watts  · 28 Mar 2011  · 327pp  · 103,336 words

100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family And

by Sonia Arrison  · 22 Aug 2011  · 381pp  · 78,467 words

Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut

by Nicholas Schmidle  · 3 May 2021  · 342pp  · 101,370 words

Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

by Michio Kaku  · 15 Mar 2011  · 523pp  · 148,929 words

The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World

by David Eagleman and Anthony Brandt  · 30 Sep 2017  · 345pp  · 84,847 words

Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die

by Eric Siegel  · 19 Feb 2013  · 502pp  · 107,657 words

Philanthrocapitalism

by Matthew Bishop, Michael Green and Bill Clinton  · 29 Sep 2008  · 401pp  · 115,959 words

Rationality: From AI to Zombies

by Eliezer Yudkowsky  · 11 Mar 2015  · 1,737pp  · 491,616 words

Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (And What to Do About It)

by Salim Ismail and Yuri van Geest  · 17 Oct 2014  · 292pp  · 85,151 words

Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler  · 3 Feb 2015  · 368pp  · 96,825 words

Doing Data Science: Straight Talk From the Frontline

by Cathy O'Neil and Rachel Schutt  · 8 Oct 2013  · 523pp  · 112,185 words

Beyond: Our Future in Space

by Chris Impey  · 12 Apr 2015  · 370pp  · 97,138 words

Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race

by Tim Fernholz  · 20 Mar 2018  · 328pp  · 96,141 words

Realizing Tomorrow: The Path to Private Spaceflight

by Chris Dubbs, Emeline Paat-dahlstrom and Charles D. Walker  · 1 Jun 2011  · 376pp  · 110,796 words

The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos

by Christian Davenport  · 20 Mar 2018  · 390pp  · 108,171 words