The Future Is Faster Than You Think has benefited greatly from the generous wisdom of a great many people. First off, the authors would like to express deep gratitude to their families—Jet, Dax, and Kristen Diamandis, and Joy Nicholson—for their incredible love, patience, and support. We’d also like to thank our agent, John Brockman; our editor; Stephanie Frerich, and everyone at Simon & Schuster who worked so doggedly on this project.
Also on the editing front, the always incredible Michael Wharton has been there every step of the way, and we owe him huge thanks for his insight, feedback, and incredible stamina. Gratitude to Max Goldberg for the staggering task of helping track down and organize our references, and to Jarom Longhurst for the book’s flawless marketing campaign.
Special thanks also goes to Steven’s team at the Flow Research Collective (especially Rian Doris) and Peter’s team at PHD Ventures (Esther Count, Claire Adair, Max Goldberg, Derek Dolin, Kelley Lujan, Jarom Longhurst, Bri Lempesis, Greg O’Brien, Tom Compere, Sue Glanzrock, Joe Mosely, and Connie Fox) for their incredible support in doing research, crowdsourcing content, and blog creation, and for providing 24-7 support. And last but not least, special recognition to Esther Count and Connie Fox for the herculean task of coordinating Peter’s schedule and life.
On the research and inspiration front, we are grateful to the Singularity University family of alumni, faculty, and staff under the leadership of cofounder and chancellor Ray Kurzweil, associate founder Rob Nail, chief growth officer Carin Watson, and executive chairman Erik Anderson. Thank you also to the XPRIZE family under the leadership of Anousheh Ansari for the offices we occupied and the inspiring stories of innovation we were able to tell in this book.
Finally, Peter wants to say thank-you to Dan Sullivan and the Strategic Coach team for the encouragement, wisdom and support on creating a 10x impact on the world.