Establishing perspective -- Our perspective -- Developing an endgame -- Finding ideas -- Investing in ideas -- Assessing ideas -- Paying for and controlling ideas -- Developing ideas -- Designing and building technology -- Demonstrating technology -- Standardizing technology -- Packaging...

"Thiel starts from the bold premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we're too distracted by our new mobile devices to notice. Progress has stalled in every industry except computers, and globalization is hardly the revolution people think it is. It's true that the...