Dispatch 01
Dematerialize
Cameras, maps, storefronts, classrooms, labs, and offices collapse into software. Once a thing becomes information, it starts improving at digital speed.
Peter H. Diamandis + Steven Kotler
2020
Exponential Technology
Special Issue / Acceleration Report
The Future
Is Faster
Than You Think
A glossy field guide to the next decade: AI, networks, sensors, robotics, biotech, and immersive worlds do not advance one at a time. They collide, compound, and redraw normal life.
The Core Idea
Exponential change gets truly strange when separate curves begin to merge.
Dispatch 02
Demonetize
The first versions are expensive; the scaled versions become shockingly cheap. Access spreads when the marginal cost drops toward zero.
Dispatch 03
Converge
The biggest jumps happen when one technology unlocks another: AI designs drugs, sensors feed cities, robotics scales labor, networks erase delay.
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Compose the next decade.
Tap the accelerators to build a convergence bundle. The desk writes a speculative headline, compresses the adoption timeline, and shows which industries heat up first.
Acceleration SourcesChoose at least two signals.
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Diamandis and Kotler's warning is not that one technology is moving fast. It is that many fast technologies are beginning to move together.
Health + Longevity
Mobility
Education
Work
Retail
Cities
Finance
Food
Concept Anatomy
The six D's of acceleration.
1
Digitized
A field becomes information, so it can be copied, measured, improved, and distributed by software.
2
Deceptive
Early progress looks disappointing because exponential curves stay quiet before they turn vertical.
3
Disruptive
The new model stops competing on the old industry's terms and rewrites customer expectations.
4
Demonetized
Costs collapse as software, networks, and scale remove expensive gatekeepers.
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Dematerialized
Dedicated objects disappear into platforms: phone, wallet, classroom, studio, lab, showroom.
6
Democratized
The tool spreads from elite access to mass participation, creating new winners and new obligations.
Reader Signals
What readers keep clipping
"The most important technologies of the next decade will not advance in isolation. They will collide."
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"Exponential progress is deceptive because it looks flat until it suddenly looks inevitable."
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"Abundance is not luxury for the few. It is the cost collapse that makes capability available to the many."
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"The future arrives as a stack: computation, connection, sensing, automation, and capital layered together."
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"Every industry should ask which part of its business becomes information first."
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"The practical response to acceleration is not prediction. It is curiosity disciplined into early experiments."
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Field Assignments
Practice exponential literacy
01
Build a Convergence Watchlist
Choose one industry you care about and track five accelerators around it: AI, sensors, networks, robotics, and capital. Review the list monthly for collisions.
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02
Run the Six-D Audit
Ask where your work is digitizing, becoming deceptive, disrupting, demonetizing, dematerializing, or democratizing. Circle the first D that already shows evidence.
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03
Prototype One Future Workflow
Use a current AI, automation, or no-code tool to compress a task you do often. The goal is not perfection; it is feeling where the curve has already moved.
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Study an Adjacent Breakthrough
Read one serious source outside your field each week. The future usually enters from the side, not from the incumbents already inside the category.
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Name the Abundance Version
For a scarcity in your life or business, write the abundance version: what would happen if access became ten times cheaper, faster, or more personalized?
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Place a Small Learning Bet
Invest ten hours in one accelerating tool before you need it. Early literacy compounds because each new tool makes the next one easier to understand.
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Closing Note
"The future feels sudden only when you miss the compounding signals that made it inevitable."
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