Human civilization needs a lift: we need a new energy plan, a new food plan, a new health plan, a new knowledge plan and a new space plan. At road:infinity we create idea capital for hyper-visionary ventures.
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Company presentation 2013
Mars // Solar System // Milky Way
Mars Opportunity Rover - day 383
Mars // Solar System // Milky Way
Mars Opportunity Rover - day 383
3. The problems of the world
cannot possibly be solved
by skeptics or cynics whose
horizons are limited by the
obvious realities. We need
people who can dream of
things that never were.
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Literary movement:
Romanticism
John Keats, 1795-1821
English Poet
ohn Keats, 1795-1821
English Romantic Poet
4. t he n ee d
Mars // Solar system // Milky Way
Mars Opportunity Rover
Panoramic camera
Days on Mars: 383
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In this inconceivably
enormous universe, we can
never run out of energy or
mat ter. But we can all too
easily run out of brains.
Ar thur C. Clarke, 1917-2008
Science fiction writer, futurist, inventor
9. the s h i f t
Mars // Solar system // Milky Way
Mars Opportunity Rover
Panoramic camera
Days on Mars: 383
10. We must shif t a good chunk of
our idea, human and financial
capital out of parochial shor t-
sighted preoccupations and into
civilization-lif ting ventures.
12. Space X
is on a mission to build a
multiplanetary civilization. First
step: cheap, reusable rockets.
13. Planetary Resources
is on a mission to create
interplanetary resource economy.
First step: mine asteroids.
14. 100 Year Starship
is on a mission to create
interstellar flight capability by
2112. First step: build a strong
community of purpose.
15. Asana
is on a mission to create a
near-telepathic capability to
coordinate collective action at a
species-wide scale. First step:
shared task list for your team.
16. Modern Meadow
is on a mission to replace 10,000
year old animal-farming
technology with lab-grown
leather and meat. First step:
bioprinting leather.
17. Methuselah Foundation
is on a mission to dramatically
extend healthy lifespan of
humanity. First step: prizes for life
extension and rejuvenation in mice,
organ regeneration in humans.
18. Infinity Aerospace
is on a mission to get our
species of f this rock. First step:
open-sourcing space research.
19. Udacity
is on a mission to give billions
access to higher education.
First step: online for-credit-
MOOCs at a fraction of the cost.
20. Star tup Genome Project
is on a mission to increase the
success rate of transformational
star tups. First step: research and
benchmarking tools.
22. RunPee
is on a mission to tell you when
it ’s safe to take pot ty breaks at
movies. Because movie theatres
don’t have pause but tons.
23. Fewer of these:
Meaningless Ventures
Time-Wasting Apps
Trivial Pursuits
More of these:
B612
Asana
Udacity
Google
Space X
Facebook
Organovo
Carbon Copies
Made in Space
Modern Meadows
Star tup Genome
100 Year Starship
Par ticipant Media
Infinity Aerospace
Big History Project
Planetary Resources
Methuselah Foundation
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Mars // Solar system // Milky Way
Mars Opportunity Rover
Panoramic camera
Days on Mars: 383
31. Hyper-visionary ventures are…
…star tups, lif tups* and par tnerships
designed to expand our collective
capability to sur vive and keep evolving as
a civilization.
*Legacy organizations that choose to transform
themselves into hyper-visionary ventures.
37. Macro-vision
Put forward an agenda for the human
species in the book “The Human Project”.
Commercial vigor
Served as a Chief Organization Officer in
a global technology company TANDBERG
(now Cisco). Started up a financial services
company in Scandinavia. Co-founded a
professional services firm in the Middle East.
Analytical rigor
Six years with McKinsey & Company
leading large-scale performance and cultural
transformations in European, African and
Asia-Pacific organizations.
Erika Ilves
Founder & Principal
39. If you have built castles in
the air, your work need not be
lost; that is where they should
be. Now put the foundations
under them: [idea, human and
financial capital].
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Rif fing of f Henry David Thoreau,
1817-1862 Author, poet, philosopher
nry David Thoreau, 1816-1862
American author, poet,
American author, poet,
philosopher, abolitionist,