As any “Star Trek” fan will tell you, the reason why this sci fi world has endured for so long is because it illustrates an optimistic future, with tech starring as a power for good.
In fact, famed XPrize founder, author, tech investor, motivational speaker and longevity guru Peter Diamandis has just launched a new $3.5 million Future Vision Xprize to encourage more such optimistic sci-fi worlds to come to our screens.
He credits his whole fabulous career to watching “Star Trek” as a child growing up.
“’Star Trek’ offered a hopeful vision of the future, right? It was humans/humanity and technology in collaboration,” Diamandis told TechCrunch. “I truly credit it with everything that I since achieved, because it motivated me to want to go and create and manifest that future.”
He finds that sci-fi movies and TV shows these days are largely fixated on calamity.
“Every science fiction movie I was seeing painted this dystopian vision of the future. It was always, everything is going wrong, and it’s a result of technology. You know, killer robots, dystopian AIs. It’s ‘Black Mirror’. It’s ‘Terminator’. It’s ‘Ex Machina,’” he said. “Why would you ever want to live in that future?”
So he called up his friends Rod Roddenberry, son of “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry, billionaire Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, famed investor and CEO of Ark Cathie Wood, and his buddies at Google. They all agreed to sponsor the new XPrize Future Vision.
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