It’s an exciting time for space exploration. NASA, private companies, and several countries are all racing to colonize space. Soon we hope to become...
For 10 weeks each summer, a group of impact-driven individuals from around the world come to Singularity University’s Silicon Valley campus to embark on...
Imagine your child requires a life-saving operation. You enter the hospital and are confronted with a stark choice.
Do you take the traditional path with...
“We will find new things everywhere we look.” –Hunter S. Thompson
At the rate of 21st century technological innovation, each year brings new breakthroughs across...
Unexpected convergent consequences: This is what happens when eight different exponential technologies all explode onto the scene at once.
An expert might be reasonably good...
"It is human nature and inevitable in my view that we will edit our genomes for enhancements.”
—J. Craig Venter
This week, Kathy Niakan, a biologist...
Last week, news broke that the holy grail of game-playing AI—the ancient and complex Chinese game Go—was cracked by AI system AlphaGo.
AlphaGo was created...
At Singularity University, space is one of our Global Grand Challenges (GGCs). The GGCs are defined as billion-person problems. They include, for example, water,...
In modern times, farming's gone from humanity's top job to a sliver of the economy—a trend that continues today as fewer young people choose to farm. For every...
I’m putting out the call for brilliant entrepreneurs who want to enroll in Singularity University’s GSP (Global Solutions Program).
The GSP is where you’ll take...
With a growing number of Earth-like exoplanets discovered in recent years, it is becoming increasingly frustrating that we can’t visit them. After all, our...
While technologies such as smartphones, the internet, and social networks offer opportunities for more direct social action than ever before—they also amplify the power...
Not long ago, venture capitalists were talking about how Bitcoin was going to transform the global currency system and render governments powerless to police...
It’s weekend rush hour. You’re stuck in traffic. You got cut off. You’re increasingly frustrated. Your heart rate and blood pressure skyrocket.
As you’re fuming...
ROBOTICS: Should We Outsource Emotional Labor to Robots?
Slate
"Even if social robots become more skilled at expressing a fuller range of human emotion (like “Nadine,” who...
No doubt you've heard of Moore's Law.
What you might not realize is that Moore's Law only refers to the exponential price-performance improvements of integrated...
All technology impacts our individual daily lives one way or another—but perhaps no technology makes us question our collective humanity as much as artificial...
On April 24, 2013, Rana Plaza, an eight-story commercial building on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed, killing 1,129 garment workers. The world watched...
Science is advancing rapidly. We are eradicating diseases, venturing further into space and discovering a growing zoo of subatomic particles. But cosmology — which is...
ROBOTICS: When Should a Robot Say No to Its Human Owner?
Adam Elkus | Slate
"Telling a robot to only obey wise choices from a human owner merely shifts...
Mark Zuckerberg is taking intense fire in India over an initiative that his organization Internet.org launched, to provide limited Internet access to the masses....
An important component of being optimistic about the future is maintaining a healthy dose of skepticism. It’s a delicate balance we’re always exploring at...
