The document discusses Singularity University, an organization that aims to educate leaders about exponentially advancing technologies. It provides an overview of the University's founding, mission to address humanity's challenges through technology, and 10-week graduate program focusing on topics like AI, biotech and computing. The University also organizes student teams to design products and services that could positively impact 1 billion people within 10 years using accelerating technologies like mobile distribution.

1. 10^9th

2. Topics
• Context – local to global
• Singularity University – why?
• Breakthroughs in Technology
• Mobile distribuFon & 10^9th
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3. Sept ’08 Founding Meeting
SU Founding Meeting @ NASA Ames - Sept 2008; 50 leaders from the Bay Area
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4. Ray Kurzweil
Moore’s Law
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5. Mission
Our mission is to
assemble, educate and
inspire a cadre of leaders
who strive to understand
and facilitate the
development of
exponenFally advancing
technologies to address
humanity’s grand
challenges.
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6. Graduate Studies Program
10 Week Program phases:
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7. Team Projects 109+
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Team Projects:
...ten to the ninth, plus
Each summer, students are asked to design a product or service that will
posiGvely impact 1 billion people within 10 years by leveraging acceleraGng
technologies.
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8. Team Projects from 2009
Enables a new paradigm for disaster response through
innovaFve soluFons to facilitate evacuaFon, medical triage,
and aid during natural disasters.
www.civiguard.com
Focuses on advances in rapid, addiFve manufacturing
technologies to construct affordable and customizable
housing in the developing world.
www.weareacasa.com
Creates a marketplace for peer‐to‐peer car sharing to
increase car accessibility, decrease energy usage, and
develop an intelligent transportaFon grid.
www.geParound.com
Envisions a plaRorm that will provide a set of modular
programming tools accessible through a web portal where
individuals can create educaGon and commerce applicaGons
that empower their communiFes.
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9. Civiguard - Technology
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10. ACASA - Technology
• The approach is already building 8’
walls
• It is projected to cost less than half of
conventional masonry.
• Proof of concept exists, the next step is
to commercialize it
• Build a 2-bedroom house in 1 ½ days
with 30w of power using local materials
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11. Gettaround
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12. OneGlobalVoice
ApplicaGon PlaOorm for SMS
• 75% of our 4 billion cell phones are sFll 2G
• What if they could access the same servers/
informaFon/cloud compuFng like we can
• “Facebook app plaRorm for SMS”
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13. World‐Class Faculty & Advisors
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14. ExecuGve Program Overview
The program concentrates on six exponenGal growing
technologies:
1. ArFficial Intelligence & RoboFcs
2. Nanotechnology
3. Biotechnology & BioinformaFcs
4. Medicine & Neuroscience
5. Networks & CompuFng Systems
6. Energy & Environmental Systems
APending the program provides an understanding of how these acceleraFng
technologies will transform your business and your industry by showing
you what is in the lab today and where the technologies will be within the next
3 to 10 years.
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15. Classroom
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16. Classroom
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18. Next EP: Oct 13th ‐ 22nd
Our last ExecuGve Program: From Feb 26th – Mar 7th, 2010, a group of 45
entrepreneurs, CEOs, venture capitalists, and government leaders from 15 naFons
Our Feedback: Over 90% of the parFcipants would “highly recommend” and
34% said it was the “Best Program Ever”
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19. The Experience
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20. Why Makers Will Impact the World
• New technologies are
driving down the cost of
R&D (exponenFally)
• Makers are crazy 
• “The day before a major
technology breakthrough,
everyone thinks the idea
is crazy” – Peter
Diamandis, CEO XPrize
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21. DIY Drones
• Ardupilot ‐ $24
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22. Hibal
• $800
Hibal.org
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23. Maker Faire
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24. 3d Printing & Fabrication
http://bothacker.com
fab@home
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25. Biotech & Food
Openwetware.org/wiki/Dunn Pearl Gel Box
Plantsonwalls
LavaAmp
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26. More on food / nutrition
Algaelab.org
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28. Youtube:
Leonardo robot
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30. Space
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31. Convergence?
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32. The risks…
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33. A billion people….
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34. Mobile - distribution
Mobile – the world’s nervous system
How would you impact a
billion people?
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35. Thank you!
@salimismail
www.singularityu.org
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