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Is Digital Learning Still Second Best?
As Covid-19 continues to spread, the world has gone digital on an unprecedented scale. Tens of thousands of employees are working from home, and huge conferences, like the Google I/O and Apple WWDC software...
Thanksgiving Food for Thought: The Tech Helping Make Food Abundant
With the Thanksgiving holiday upon us, it’s a great time to reflect on the future of food. Over the last few years, we have seen a dramatic rise in exponential technologies transforming the food...
Unleashing Some of the Most Ambitious Women on the Planet
At Singularity University, we are unleashing a generation of women who are smashing through barriers and starting some of the most ambitious technology companies on the planet.
Singularity University was founded in 2008 to empower...
Why Quantum Computers Will Be an Amazing Tool for Social Innovators
While most people think quantum computing is still a few years off, your next taxi ride in Bangkok may be attached to a quantum computer. Toyota Tsusho and Denso recently announced plans to use...
Solutions to the World’s Biggest Problems Are Within Our Reach
At Singularity University (SU) we believe it is possible to solve today’s most pressing problems within the next couple decades. We call these the global grand challenges (GGCs). Our ambition and optimism stem from...
This Is How the World’s Poor Are Pioneering the Future of Energy
What if it took you four hours a day to cook all your meals because, in addition to cooking, you also had to search for firewood? What if you could only work and study...
Fighting Developing World Disease With AI, Robotics, and Biotech
While CRISPR, nanobots and head transplants are making headlines as medical breakthroughs, a number of new technologies are also making progress tackling some of the toughest age-old diseases still plaguing millions of people in...
These New Technologies Will Be Both Powerful and Planet Friendly
Did you know there is a 25% chance your cause of death will be due to environmental pollution?
According the World Health Organization, some 12.6 million people—or nearly 1 in 4 worldwide—died in 2012 due...
The Next Water Crisis Is Looming—How Can Tech Help?
Have you ever wondered if the water in your house is safe to drink? While many have been angered by the news that children in Flint, Michigan were exposed to abnormally high amounts of...
Disrupting Regulation: Robot Cars, Blockchain and Robotic Pharmacies
In recent years, regulators and lawmakers have been caught off guard by quick-moving new technologies—3D printed guns, genetically modified glowing plants, new business models for sharing economy companies and drones.
As the pace of technological innovation...
Technology Doesn’t Just Erase Jobs—It Creates Them Too
Worries about the future often share a critical flaw. They sometimes assume nothing changes, or that change happens more slowly than it does—when instead, awareness of a problem drives people to find solutions to...
Can We Trust Robot Cars to Make Hard Choices?
The ethics of robot cars has been a hot topic recently. In particular, if a robot car encounters a situation where it is forced to hit one person or another—which should it choose and how does...
Women Working on the Frontiers of Technology
Are women starting companies in the most cutting edge fields and keeping pace with the future? Although many are now learning coding and engineering in school, working for global internet companies and building their...
Future of Work: What Skills Will Help Us Keep Pace?
From Elon Musk’s tweet that artificial intelligence may be more dangerous than nuclear weapons to the growing clamor of voices warning robots will take away our jobs, it is clear we are focusing more...