NASA and Google: “Prepare humanity for accelerating technological change”
Posted by Tucker Gurley @ February 4th, 2009 in Media News
(image credit: NASA)
The formation of the new Singularity University brings together the world’s brightest, most forward-thinking students and professors in a collective effort to solve “humanity’s grand challenges” by looking at them in a new light and confronting them with the powers of the future of technology.
The project is headed up by Dr. Ray Kurzweil, SU Chancellor and author of The Singularity is Near, and Dr. Peter Diamandis, Chairman and CEO of the X Prize Foundation and SU Vice-Chancellor. Google is the first corporate sponsor to back the project, an effort made by its co-founder Larry Page.
The University was founded in response to the recent exponential technological growth as a means of determining its effect on humanity as well as how this technology could be optimised to solve the world’s problems. Areas of study will include subjects such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, human enhancements and artificial intelligence.
SU has thrown out, along with many others, ideas of accomplishing such feats as solving hunger problems via robotics, nanorobotic red blood cells and Artificial Intelligence to master the world’s economic and financial problems.
There is much buzz about this project’s recent unveiling and we are undoubtedly excited to see what new solutions SU will be able to implement in the coming years.
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