Peter Diamandis: A future of Abundance - Docu - 2013

While the world is in crisis, there is a man who thinks the future is as bright as it can be. Peter Diamandis, author of the book Abundance and co-founder of Singularity University, sees how technology can soon provide all basic needs such as energy, clean drinking water and food for the growing world population, with ease.
Original title: Overvloed
But the ideas of Peter Diamandis go beyond specific technological solutions. He sees a world in which technological developments will be moving at an ever higher rate. As in the field of healthcare, where the use of data and smartphones make it possible to monitor one's health, not once in a while, but constant. The consequences of this are hardly visible to many.
This documentary explores the world of ever faster growing technological development, in which major changes can happen overnight, and investigates if technological developments that are just around the corner will be able to solve the world’s major problems within the next 20 to 30 years. Will we soon live in a world of abundance?

Originally broadcasted by VPRO in 2013.
© VPRO Backlight April 2013

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Credits:
Director: Martijn Kieft
Research: Gerko Wessel
Production: Marie Schutgens
Editors: Henneke Hagen & Frank Wiering
English, French and Spanish subtitles: Ericsson.
French and Spanish subtitles are co-funded by European Union.