Over the past century, we have made massive strides in the rights revolution. These include rights for women, children, the LGBT community, animals, and...
As technology and innovation move faster and faster, concerns over ownership and access continue to increase. In answer to a question at a Singularity...
Last week in San Francisco, Singularity University hosted its first-ever Global Summit. In three days, we heard over 100 science and technology experts give...
Walking onto the expo floor at Singularity University Global Summit is an exhilarating and overwhelming experience. Packed with rows and booths of cutting-edge companies,...
Take a moment and think back to when you were in kindergarten.
Activities like capturing tadpoles, making birdfeeders, and building forts filled school days with...
Something big recently happened at Singularity University.
79 participants from 49 different countries graduated from Singularity University’s 10-week flagship Global Solutions Program (GSP).
Over 30 team...
In a presentation at Singularity University’s first annual Global Summit, Brad Templeton informed attendees, “Self-driving cars are going to change the world.”
You may have...
"What's a crazy idea you believe in that others don't agree with?"
Peter Diamandis posed this classic question (which originated with Peter Thiel) during an interview with...
Today, Founder and Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation Peter Diamandis kicked off Singularity University’s first ever Global Summit here in tech capital, San Francisco.
The energy is...
Singularity University’s inaugural Global Summit is kicking off today in tech capital San Francisco and running through August 30th.
The Singularity Hub team will be...
In early 2015, Singularity Hub ran a series of articles on the Future of Work. Sveta McShane kicked the series off by asking (and answering) the following question:
"Have we...
As faculty chair for Medicine and Neuroscience at Singularity University and curator of our annual Exponential Medicine conference (apply to join us this Oct...
I've been reading Ramez Naam's fantastic book "Nexus," which is set in a near-future where a powerful nano-drug allows human minds to connect together....
Researchers at Harvard Medical School have "radically rewritten" the genome of bacteria E. coli. The team has replaced 7 of its 64 codons (3-letter sequences which correspond...
How will we interact with the intelligent machines of the future? If you're asking Bryan Johnson, founder of startup Kernel, he'll tell you those machines should...
For the first time, SoftBank Robotics' Pepper, the adorable and tiny humanoid robot helper, will be available to purchase in the US.
Pepper reads human emotion, follows your motion with her...
Researchers at Duke University were surprised to find that the process of learning to use a brain-machine interface (BMI) and exoskeleton led to neurological...
Think your deliberate, guiding, conscious thoughts are in charge of your actions?
Think again.
In a provocative paper in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, a team led...
Here in Silicon Valley there is no shortage of advice available to aspiring entrepreneurs. But finding quality advice, well, that’s a completely different story.
Pascal...
In recent years, it's been exciting watching advances in AI like IBM's Watson smashing humans at Jeopardy and Google’s AlphaGo AI beating champions at the...
Earlier this week on the Nerdist podcast Seth Rogen said that he and writer/producer Evan Goldberg would be making a comedy series based entirely on...
Doctors often worry that giving patients too much information will be overwhelming or harmful. However, a study by OpenNotes is showing the exact opposite.
After giving 20,000...
How do we gain the immense benefits of advanced nanotechnology while avoiding its potential misuse?
This was Christine Peterson’s big question when she co-founded the...
