This might be a controversial post.
My Thanksgiving was one filled with texting, Snapchat, Skyping, Facetime, Beam robots and ringing phones.
Some people HATE the way...
For a generation of CEOs, Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma was a guiding light on how to survive industry disruptions. His book educated business executives...
ROBOTICS: Google’s robot group struggles to fill leadership vacuum as it shoots for ambitious launch before 2020
Jillian D'Onfro | Business Insider
"Nearly two years ago, Google...
Ali M. Ismail, Entrepreneur
Graduate Studies Program 2015 Graduate
Baghdad, Iraq
Ali Ismail had been patiently waiting in Baghdad for the arrival of a visa the US embassy...
Our bodies are extremely complex, interrelated, and ever-evolving patterns of information—from DNA to physiology to vital signs. But until modern times, most of that...
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” –Martin Luther King Jr.
In 2013, 51.2 million refugees were forced to flee...
ROBOTICS: How to Design a Robot You Can Swallow
Emily Waltz | IEEE Spectrum
"Vanderbilt engineers want to speed up the development of capsule robots. So they have...
For me, the word nanotechnology evokes a specific image. Maybe you’re the same. It’s a machine. Perhaps a little futuristic. But something that wouldn’t...
“Simply put, we can’t keep preparing children for a world that doesn’t exist.”
-Cathy N. Davidson
Exponential technologies have a tendency to move from a deceptively...
Emilia Lahti: M.Sc., MAPP (Master of Applied Positive Psychology), Entrepreneur
Graduate Studies Program 2015 Graduate
Finland and the US
When faced with extreme adversity, why do some people...
Jeremy Howard opened his machine learning talk at Exponential Medicine by noting he would be presenting from his laptop. Something epic had just happened,...
Last year in the US, 84% of total healthcare spending—a whopping one trillion dollars—went to managing and preventing chronic disease.
But chronic conditions and diseases—such...
Each year, Singularity University descends on San Diego's Hotel Del Coronado for Exponential Medicine, a four-day conference exploring how technology is driving monumental change in health and medicine. (Go...
This week in San Diego, Singularity University is holding its Exponential Medicine Conference, a look at how technologists are redesigning and rebuilding today's broken...
The brain is a great information processor, but one that doesn’t care about where information comes from.
Sight, scent, taste, sound, touch — all of...
ROBOTICS: Service robots finally start to catch on
Andra Keay | VentureBeat
"What is becoming clear, as robotics catches up to computerization, is that we don’t just want...
Last Friday, October 30, Singularity University awarded three groups support and resources as part of its first-ever water-focused Impact Challenge. The 2015 Impact Challenge,...
If you can't join us in person for our Future of Learning event this evening at Singularity University, don't worry. You can watch the livestream from...
Andrea Palmer: Mechanical Engineering & Entrepreneur
Graduate Studies Program 2015 Graduate
British Columbia, Canada
We often cannot plan for the transformative moments in our lives. Though...
Progress in photorealistic 3D avatar technology, voice synthesis, augmented reality and artificial intelligence, at large, should make it possible within 30 years to bring...
