from a Huffpost interview:
Diamandis: Yes, we have ISIS. But the data overwhelmingly suggests the future I’ve been describing.
One big problem is that the news media has a grip on our imagination. The fundamental function of the news media is to deliver every piece of negative news to my living room in high definition over and over again. It’s a drug pusher that fuels our instinctual addiction to paying more attention to negative news instead of positive news.
Sure, there are lots of problems. But the world is getting better in extraordinary ways we’ve never seen before. Though you wouldn’t believe it from the headlines, violence per capita of the global population is at its lowest point in history. Food, water, sanitation, health — all have improved dramatically over the last century and will improve even more dramatically in the decades ahead.
We all tend to have this negativity bias. We need to balance that out a lot more and focus on connectivity, not negativity.