Xprize Founder Peter Diamandis Launches New Contest To Manifest A New ‘Star Trek’

XPrize founder Peter Diamandis launches a $3.5M Future Vision contest to inspire optimistic sci-fi and fight Hollywood's dystopia obsession.
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Xprize Founder Peter Diamandis Launches New Contest To Manifest A New ‘Star Trek’
Peter Diamandis, the founder of XPrize, has just launched a bold new $3.5 million competition designed to do something Hollywood has largely stopped doing — imagine a future worth living in. The Future Vision XPrize is a direct response to decades of doom-and-gloom science fiction, and it's backed by some of the biggest names in tech and business. If you've ever wondered why modern sci-fi feels so relentlessly dark, this contest is gunning to change that. Why Peter Diamandis Is Fighting Hollywood's Dystopia Obsession For anyone who grew up watching Star Trek , the appeal was never just the spaceships or the warp drives. It was the hope . A future where humanity and technology worked together — not against each other. That vision, Diamandis says, is what shaped his entire career. " Star Trek offered a hopeful vision of the future," Diamandis explained. "It was humans and technology in collaboration. I truly credit it with everything I've since achieved, becaus…