discoveries that help humanity. author and journalist published together bold, how to go big and impact the world. are you ready to be more optimistic? listen in. peter diamondis, stephen kotler pleasure to have you on. let s first talk about the bigger issue, which is one of the things you guys have been campaigning to make us all understand that we are not living in scary, dark times but in times of incredible opportunity and abundance. what is the most powerful evidence of that. the evidence is 1,000 years ago if you wanted to affect a country or region you had to be the king or the queen to do anything. 100 years ago, you would be the industrialist, robber barron. today any of us have technology to what governments had 20 years ago, access to crowd funding. someone who is driven passionate can actually make a difference go and start a company that can positively impact the lives of millions eventually billions of people. in a sense, that s really to