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Founded in 2009 by Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis, Singularity University is a start-up university in Silicon Valley. SU's mission is "...to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies to address humanity's challenges."
Singularity University is not your father's college.
In August of 2011, Reason.tv's Paul Feine and Alex Manning traveled to Singularity University to get to know a few of the 80 students who participated in SU's 10-week interdisciplinary summer graduate program. We encountered a fascinating group of young entrepreneurs who have big plans to use technology to help the world's poor…and make a profit!
Approximately 6 minutes.
Produced by Paul Feine and Alex Manning.
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The HELPed poor|11.9.11 @ 1:14PM|#
Libertarians want the power of the agricultural city-STATE to force people to follow arbitrary shapes set down on the ground by rich white men with guns. Their system of land enTITLEment is enforced through the power of the police, as Rothbard would have them.
Officer, am I free to gambol about forest and plain?
...Being a fucktard is fun!
Forgettable Paul|11.9.11 @ 1:48PM|#
http://www.suck.com/daily/96/03/12/
Age of Batshit Crazy Machines|11.9.11 @ 3:25PM|#
"The Singularity" is the biggest idea in techno-utopianism. The word is derived from black hole science...
The Age of Batshit Crazy Machines
by Ran Prieur | July 4, 2005
http://ranprieur.com/essays/machines.html
Don't fear the Singularity!
Suki|11.9.11 @ 1:16PM|#
Now there is no excuse to miss the singularity.
poetry|11.9.11 @ 1:23PM|#
I like to think there will be more than one.
Universes melting together like marshmallows over a fire.
Forgettable Paul|11.9.11 @ 1:21PM|#
There's always been something that bugs me about Ray Kurzweil.
yonemoto|11.9.11 @ 1:34PM|#
I also like to point out that most curves that experience log-linear don't keep doing so forever.
http://faculty.irsc.edu/FACULT...../bacterial growth curve.jpg
Ray Kurzweil = Harold Camping|11.9.11 @ 3:30PM|#
Two religious fundamentalists looking for Salvation from the hell on earth that the city-State (civilization) has made of things.
Magic Jesus Heaven vs. Techno-Utopian heaven - not much diff.
Tim|11.9.11 @ 1:31PM|#
A school for future SOLYNDRA executives....
Forgettable Paul|11.9.11 @ 1:46PM|#
Kind of what I was thinking. Lots of "idea men" not concerned with the details.
Fist of Etiquette|11.9.11 @ 1:44PM|#
Go, Fighting Marketeers! Beat State!
Name Nomad|11.9.11 @ 2:37PM|#
Justine Lam was involved with Ron Paul's campaign last time. Kind of weird to see her again in a different context.
Spur|11.9.11 @ 2:48PM|#
Perhaps one of these brainiacs could get Reason's youtube channel to load a bit faster...
How about non-poisoned bodies?|11.9.11 @ 3:28PM|#
China: Regime Admits 10% of Farmland Polluted with Heavy Metals
Considering the source, I’d start by doubling or tripling the estimate.
http://cryptogon.com/?p=25886
|11.9.11 @ 3:36PM|#
So, what's the opposite of the singularity? 'Cause I'm gonna bet on that.
Collapse. Me too.|11.9.11 @ 3:46PM|#
Thesis #26: Collapse is inevitable.
The Thirty Theses
Jason Godesky
http://rewild.info/anthropik/thirty/
Barfman|11.9.11 @ 4:07PM|#
Barf!
Nuclear War. Me too.|11.9.11 @ 3:47PM|#
IS WORLD NUCLEAR WAR INEVITABLE?
How U.S. and Israeli Aggression are leading us to World Nuclear War
by Carol Moore, updated November 2007
http://carolmoore.net/nuclearwar/
Got FALLOUT SHELTER?|11.9.11 @ 3:49PM|#
Nuclear War
Survival
Skills
http://www.oism.org/nwss/
Barfman|11.9.11 @ 4:08PM|#
Double barf!
Radiation sickness|11.9.11 @ 8:58PM|#
...and Barfman.
Indistinguishable.
k2000k|11.9.11 @ 4:47PM|#
A university....
for entrepeneurs...
...
Chaos Punk|11.9.11 @ 5:02PM|#
Oxymoronic
|11.9.11 @ 5:30PM|#
"Nanotech" doesn't exist:
http://scottlocklin.wordpress......arlatanry/
Marc by Marc Jacobs Handbag|11.9.11 @ 9:23PM|#
Mr. Marc Jacobs is a legend
AT|11.10.11 @ 2:43AM|#
You need software to design your family meals? Sounds pretty useless to me.