At the heart of the organization is the Abundant World “Hive”—our human intelligence-driven community platform that serves as a powerful hub for our global network of futurists and thought leaders, yielding an unprecedented opportunity for building mass synergy behind the Abundant World movement, sowing the seeds of a new, abundance-driven economy, and freeing the word from the oppressive, scarcity-driven mindset that only limits human potential.

Abundant World Institute
is teaming with leading visionaries to reinvent education, to advance it from its Industrial Age model, to expand and develop the capacity for “applied imagination.” Technology will play a vital role, but to be effective, it must be at the service of new, game-changing models. Both Moonshots and After Shock define these new models, which we are building out with curricula and novel technology-enabled delivery mechanisms, including catalogs of online/virtual/interactive courses, with faculty drawn from our vast network of thought-leading subject matter experts. Putting the new models into motion today, Abundant World Institute is collaborating with Touro College to produce a compelling curriculum based on the principles of our foundational texts, Moonshots and After Shock, which will ultimately be marketed to universities worldwide.

Abundant World Institute
 is also producing “mini-courses” (both paid and MOOC) with content developed by our global network, and with impact measured at every juncture. We are harnessing and bringing coherence to a global collective of enlightened changemakers with a goal to reach every person.

Abundant World Institute
 is an inherently egalitarian enterprise, unlike elitist organizations and institutes which remain insulated from the “real” world they seek to affect. Abundant World Institute will bring its media and educational programs directly into impoverished regions and inner cities where they are needed most.

Enabled by a sophisticated AI-driven innovation platform, people will, for the first time, be able to “imagineer” a better future by connecting the dots looking forward—something no other AI platform is able to do today—breaking entirely new ground in the field.

—An Abundant World Institute Venture—

Imagine novel and innovative solutions in such vital areas as personal wellness and education, energy and the environment, dramatically accelerating entirely new insights and breakthroughs…

Imagination Machines
is an audacious initiative to imbue machines with the capacity of imagination—augmenting human capacities—to help humanity meet its global grand challenges and to transform otherwise intractable problems into opportunities. Led by the leading minds in AI, and driven in part by the innovative application of “counterfactuals” and causal discovery to AI, Imagination Machines will help us to look forward—to imagine and construct new futures scenarios, to accurately predict the future, to generate new innovative ideas, to make nonobvious connections, to link cause and effect, to produce new and novel creative works—with little to no data to go on.

Present forms of deep learning are unable to accomplish this because they are dependent upon data science—the use of methods, processes, algorithms, and systems to extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data. This is in contrast to “imagination science”—the emerging field that extends data science beyond its current realm of learning probability distributions from known samples. Only through imagination science can AI begin to ask “What if?” as opposed to “What is?” Indeed, Imagination Machines will reinvent the way we invent. Application areas span drug discovery to climate science; advanced materials to complex electronic systems, geopolitics to poverty. 

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will follow these entrepreneurs from their early stages to growth while they work to balance a multi-trillion dollar wave of new investment in emerging technologies over the next decade against the disrupted jobs market that will surely attend it. These new entrepreneurs are operating in an unprecedented milieu of massive opportunity, major economic impact, and regulatory uncertainty that will develop under their dynamic leadership and influence. We envision a critical opportunity to work closely with what will prove to be history’s most consequential generation of entrepreneurs, to influence their missions in creating a world of abundance. To these ends, our anchor advisory board includes such luminaries as Regina Dugan (former DARPA director, leader of Facebook’s Bldg 8 and Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects team), Peter Cohan, Carver Mead, Naveen Jain, Carl Schramm, Byron Reese, and others.

We believe the arts are fundamental to human flourishing, as well as to communication, social cohesion, and creativity. These are the ultimate hallmarks of an abundant world and essential to fostering spiritual, emotional, and intellectual enlightenment and inspiration.

As such, the arts shall be integrated into every aspect of our work, including our media and education thrusts, as we help to transform STEM to STEAM. Moreover, Abundant World Institute’s arts initiatives shall also be expressed in novel, experiential forms as we build out Alvin Toffler’s vision for “Imaginetic Centers”—immersive, hyper experiences that involve and stimulate all the senses in imagining and experiencing the future we start to create today.

The mission of Abundant World Institute is ambitious. It is also precisely what is needed at this critical hinge of history. Achieving our objectives will require all of the “instruments” of our work—media, education, science, technology, entrepreneurship, the arts—to be performing together, simultaneously, in concert, under the leadership of our accomplished team. Together, we can compose a beautiful opus… “Our Abundant Future.”

To learn more about our mission and objectives, contact us.