Comprising a society of the world’s foremost technologists, futurists, and entrepreneurs, Abundant World is a social enterprise (organized as a Public Benefit Corporation) dedicated to transforming global grand challenges into massive opportunities in areas of tremendous human consequence.
We are working alongside, and collaborating with, hundreds of global thought leaders, futurists, scientists, technologists, educators, artists, and economists to envision, frame, and actualize a future of abundance for all who desire it via the holistic integration of science, technology, media, education, entrepreneurship, and the arts. By bringing each of these vectors together into coherent focus, we can bring to bear the very best of human capacity to create an amazing world of unlimited human flourishing.
Further enabled by a sophisticated AI-driven innovation platform, we imagineer a better future by connecting the dots looking forward.
On Becoming An Awe Junkie To see the world differently we need to, well, see the world differently!
If we can experience such a thing from our Earth-bound perspective, imagine the crew of Apollo 8 gazing upon the Earth from space—“hanging in the void.” They, and other astronauts since, routinely report an ineffable yet visceral cognitive shift in awareness that has come to be called the “overview effect”—an overwhelming sense of awe over both the fragility and the unity of life on our little planet.
VIDEO: The Caltech Sessions In Conversation with Carver Mead and George Gilder
Join Abundant World Institute executive director John Schroeter in a wide-ranging conversation with Carver Mead and George Gilder—two of the most gifted thinkers of our time—on innovation, the economics of abundance, the history of technology, entrepreneurship, creative possibility, surprise as information, and much more.
Teaching the Body Electric Tesla's Shocking Schoolroom Solution
Discover a little-known but fascinating 1912 experiment in education whose basic idea is being realized today in equally fascinating ways.
Sustainability’s Fatal Flaw Should We Consume less or Create More?
Somehow, we have become convinced that sustainability is the answer to responsibly managing our dwindling resources—after all, it’s just common sense, right?—when in reality, it actually constitutes our greatest peril. By far. Far more than the possibility of climatic disruption, job-killing robots, or even nukes. Here’s why.
Boxes, Holes, and Lateral Thinking Why Imagination is more Important than Knowledge
Disruption happens when you apply software design techniques to the design of a lunar launch vehicle. Disruption happens when you apply what you learned in space to healthcare. Disruption happens when you apply what you learned in healthcare to education. These are all examples of moving laterally to very different boxes, repurposing knowledge from unrelated fields, transplanting big ideas across industries and disciplines.
Looking to Nature for Inspiration Copying Nature’s Systems and Strategies
The biggest innovations of the 21st century will be found at the intersection of biology and technology, meaning the creative entrepreneur can discover many solutions to human engineering challenges simply by copying nature’s amazingly inventive systems and strategies.
World-changing Secrets of the Entrepreneurial Mindset Revealed: Learn how curiosity, imagination, and exponential possibility are enabling life without limits. Moonshots is an Axiom Business Book Awards 2019 Gold Medal winner and a Kirkus Reviews "Best Book of 2018."