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“The adjacent possible” is theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman's wonderful term for all the myriad paths unlocked by every novel discovery, the multitude of universes hidden inside something as simple as an idea.
²⁷
Abundance is one of those simple ideas. Its time has come. It is up to the bold to unlock this adjacent possible, to help humanity live up to our full exponential potential.

It's an exciting time. Every week, there are new technologies slipping out of the lab and into the market, driving us toward a world of abundance. We think it's critically important for you to have access to this ever-expanding pool of knowledge, therefore we're presenting five different ways for you to stay plugged in, interact with the authors, and join an ongoing conservation about the radical advances bringing us a world of abundance.

Visit our website,
www.AbundanceHub.com
, where you'll have access to up-to-date data, articles, blogs, and videos about abundance and exponential technologies. This site is free and media rich. You also can sign up for a free newsletter and participate in future initiatives, get weekly blog posts on “New Evidence of
Abundance,” and much more.

Join Peter Diamandis's Abundance 360 Community—a group of entrepreneurs passionate about generating extraordinary wealth while creating a world of abundance.

Membership in the Abundance 360 Community is highly curated, focused on Top of Form entrepreneurs committed to expanding their business 10x to 100x, on a global level. The summit and monthly webinars are personally taught and curated by Diamandis, in cooperation with Singularity University and Strategic Coach. The content focuses on making exponential tools and technologies teachable and immediately usable in your business and your life. Diamandis has committed to running the Abundance 360 summit for the next twenty-five years. In a world of rapid, unpredictable growth, this is a program to count on every January to give you a road map for the year. To join the Community and begin receiving personal coaching from Peter, please visit
www.A360.com
and start the application process.

At the Flow Genome Project, the most consistent question we get asked after people learn about flow's extraordinary impact on peak performance is how individuals and organizations can get more of it. If you want to learn more about how flow can help seriously raise your game, the Flow Genome Project offers a variety of courses and training programs, ranging from individual online trainings to multiday or multimonth corporate trainings. Details about all of our programs are available at
www.FlowGenomeProject.com
.

If you enjoyed learning about Singularity University (SU) and would like to participate in one of our programs, you are welcome to get involved. Graduate and postgraduate students can apply for the ten-week Graduate Studies Program (GSP). Others, including executives, investors, and entrepreneurs, can apply for the six-day Executive programs held on a regular basis at the SU Campus in Mountain View, California. Details on both programs are available at the university's website,
www.SingularityU.org
.

Philanthropists and corporate executives interested in the design or funding of an XPRIZE can learn more at
www.xprize.org
. Or for more information simply shoot us an email at [email protected].

For information about hiring Peter Diamandis to give a keynote address for your corporation or association, more information is available at
www.Diamandis.com
.

For information about hiring Steven Kotler to give a keynote address for your corporation or association, more information is available at
www.StevenKotler.com
.

Thank you for taking the time to read
Bold
. We hope our contrarian view of the future has provided an antidote to some of today's pessimisms. Creating abundance is humanity's grandest challenge—one that together, with intention and action, we can make happen within our lifetime.

BOLD
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 Kotler, for their incredible patience and support. We'd also like to thank our agent, John Brockman, our editor Thomas LeBein, Brit Hvide and everyone at Simon & Schuster who worked so doggedly on this project.

For insight and feedback, we thank a group of experts and friends, including Salim Ismail, Marcus Shingles, Andrew Hessel, Michael Wharton, Jamie Whealand, and Fred MacDonald.

Special thanks goes to Peter's team at PHD Ventures (Marissa Brassfield, Cody Rapp, Maxx Bricklin, and Kelley Lujan) for their incredible support in doing research, crowdsourcing content, and providing twenty-four by seven input. And recognition to Connie Fox for the herculean task of coordinating Peter's schedule and life.

On the research and inspiration front, we are also grateful to the Singularity University family of alumni, faculty, and staff under the leadership of co-founder and chancellor Ray Kurzweil and CEO Rob Nail. We are also thankful to the XPRIZE Family for the support and inspiration in writing this book and their dedication to solving humanity's grand challenges. In particular Bob Weiss, Eileen Bartholomew, Trish Halamandaris, Paul Rappoport, Chris Frangione, and the entire
XPRIZE staff.

For coaching and rock-star marketing advice we consider ourselves lucky to be mentored by Dan Sullivan (and the team at Strategic Coach), Joe Polish, Brendon Burchard, and Mike Cline.

Peter is thankful to the incredibly energizing and uplifting music of Sarah Brightman, which was listened to for countless hours while writing this book on airplanes and in hotel rooms.

Great appreciation goes to writer Bob Hughes for his support in authoring the early blogs to investigate the content of
BOLD
, and to Michael Drew for his support in promoting this book.

Finally, we wish to thank the hundreds and thousands of fans and readers who have given us feedback through Google+, Facebook, and email as we developed this content. The names of these friends can be found here:
www.BoldtheBook.com/supporters
.

1
 Mary Bagley, “Cretaceous Period: Facts About Animals, Plants & Climate,”
LiveScience
, May 1, 2013.

2
 Paul R. Renne et al., “Time Scales of Critical Events Around the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary,”
Science
339, no. 6120 (February 8, 2013): 684–687.

3
 This has been documented all over the place, but if you want to see a really cool infographic comparing a typical smartphone to a 1985-era supercomputer, check out
http://www.charliewhite.net/2013/09/smartphones-vs-supercomputers/
.

4
 Ray Kurzweil, “The Law of Accelerating Returns,”
Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
, March 7, 2001,
http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of-accelerating-returns
.

5
 Abundance was named a top five book of the year by both
Fortune
and
Money
.

1
 Elizabeth Brayer,
George Eastman: A Biography
(Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 24–72. Or see
http://www.kodak.com/ek/US/en/Our_Company/History_of_Kodak/George_Eastman.htm
.

2
 See
http://www.kodak.com/ek/US/en/Our_Company/History_of_Kodak/George_Eastman.htm
.

3
 Ibid.

4
 See “Kodak Moments: Steve Sasson, Digital Camera Inventor,”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfnpVRiiwnM
.

5
 John Pavlus, “How Steve Sasson Invented The Digital Camera,”
Fast Company
, April 12, 2011,
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663611/how-steve-sasson-invented-the-digital-camera-video
.

6
 Steve Sasson, “Disruptive Innovation: The Story of the First Digital Camera,” Linda Hall Library Lectures, October 26, 2011.

7
 Andrew Martin, “Negative Exposure for Kodak,”
New York Times
, October 20, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/business/kodaks-bet-on-its-printers-fails-to-quell-the-doubters.html?pagewanted=all
.

8
 Pavlus, “How Steve Sasson Invented The Digital Camera.”

9
 Gordon E. Moore, “Cramming more components onto integrated circuits,”
Electronics
, April 19, 1965, 4.

10
 Ray Kurzweil, “The Law of Accelerating Returns.”

11
 Michael J. de la Merced, “Eastman Kodak Files for Bankruptcy,”
New York Times
, January 19, 2012,
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/eastman-kodak-files-for-bankruptcy/
.

12
 Chris Anderson,
Free: How Today's Smartest Businesses Profit by Giving Something for Nothing
(New York: Hyperion, 2010), 2–3.

13
 Elizabeth Palmero, “Google Invests Billions on Satellites to Expand Internet Access,”
Scientific American
, June 5, 2014.

14
 Richard Foster and Sarah Kaplan,
Creative Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market—And How to Successfully Transform Them
(New York: Crown Business, 2001), 8.