Diamandis took the stage to tell the class that the key to understanding the future is to realize that technology is set to make things such as energy, food, he

Diamandis took the stage to tell the class that the key to understanding the future is to realize that technology is set to make things such as energy, food, health care, and Internet access abundant and cheap. -- from the article "Our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter... It is not too much to expect that our children will know of great periodic regional famines in the world only as matters of history, will travel effortlessly over the seas and under them and through the air with a minimum of danger and at great speeds, and will experience a lifespan far longer than ours, as disease yields and man comes to understand what causes him to age." -- Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, 1954 U.S. health care expenditures have steadily increased as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) over the last half century, increasing from 5.0 percent of GDP in 1960 to 17.4 percent in 2013. [0] Food spending is down though. From about 15% to 5% of family disposable income during the same period[1]. Some people say this is directly related to increased health care costs. Loving the idea of cheap solar. Just hope the externalities don't drive up the price of those other things mentioned. [2] [0] https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/NationalHealthExpendData/Downloads/HistoricalNHEPaper.pdf https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Sta... [1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/DataFiles/Food_Expenditures__17981/FoodExpenditures_table7.xls?v=42395 https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/DataFiles/Food_Expenditures... [2] https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-negative-externalities-associated-with-solar-photovoltaics https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-negative-externalities-as...