Rowan Hooper | How to Spend a Trillion Dollars | Talks at Google

[@MDBowron]

interestingly enough there was an idea called dollarstreet where basically humanity was split into four levels: people at $1 a day, people at $4 a day, people at $16 a day, and $64 a day. There's roughly a billion in the $1 a day, 2 or 3 billion to $4 a day, 2 to 3 billion on $16 a day, and 1 billion at $64 a day. Now take that top $64 a day, and ask them to put aside $20 a week, or roughly $3 a day from that $64 a day, and you'll end up with 21 x 52 roughly equalling $1092 saved from each person of that 1 billion. That makes $1 trillion $92 billion a year. So do that over 10 years you can solve those 10 world problems at probably the cost to get a coffee each day.

[@MDBowron]

one idea why capturing carbon from the atmosphere could be good, would be in building materials. Imagine making more things out of carbon-fibre or artificial diamond? imagine roads without potholes, buildings able to withstand earthquakes, vehicles that can't be dented, spacecraft that's protected from micrometeorites, space elevators made of artificial diamond, armour and shields made of diamond. Even using two carbon isotopes to reference 1s and 0s, could store a copy of the entire internet in 60 kilograms of what's called memory-diamond.

[@donaldharlan3981]

Sorry Jon, this one's no good, too. I would'nt allow him into my company, Google is like a bunch of chickenshits, going down the tubes. I do blame him somewhat. No person educated at Stanford, will ever be employed at Google, is one of the first directives from my mouth. They look/sound very uncomfortable for a good reason, none of my children qualified themselves to me, to be eligible for a Trillion Dollars.