Singularity University: Team Projects to Positively Change the World

Singularity University is a new interdisciplinary university whose mission is to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies in order to address humanity's grand challenges.

With the support of a broad range of leaders in academia, business and government, Singularity University hopes to stimulate groundbreaking, disruptive thinking and solutions aimed at solving some of the planet's most pressing challenges.

Singularity University is located at the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley, based on the ideas of futurist Raymond Kurzweil, and supported by the financial sponsorship of companies like Google, Nokia, AutoDesk and ePlanet Ventures.
Students objective is to present visionary projects and ideas to positively change the world. The team projects prepared by the second class of graduate students will include the following reports:

Home Energy Generation: Powering Humanity: AMUNDA to create a transparent World Energy Market Place where all energy-related information for every location of the world will be visualized, and where buyers and sellers of energy products and services can meet to profitably satisfy their energy needs
Food for Cities: Opportunities in Controlled Environment Agriculture and Vertical Farming: Agropolis application of hydroponic food production for decentralized, controlled agricultural production in urban environments
Upcycle: Waste Reduction and Reprocessing of Waste Materials Into Useful Products
a) BioMine – remediating precious materials for reuse using biological means; b) Fre3dom – distributed manufacturing to promote self-sustaining communities; i2cycle – innovating industrial cycles to create global materials ecosystems
Sustainable Water Assets: From Water Poverty to Abundance
a) H2020 –application of data integration technologies new forms of data collection, crowdsourced GIS location specific data and AI tools to identify and match needs and solutions
b) Sensoria – low cost identification of pollutants through biotech and sensors using new
genetics approaches
c) Naishio – looking at the exponential growth of converging technologies to accelerate low
cost desalination and abundant water
Space – To Boldly Stay: Extending Humanity into the Solar System
a) Biologically Enhanced Space Technology – biological materials and biology inspired structures
b) Cheap Access to Space – Developing a fully reusable externally powered space launch system
c) Small Satellite Swarms – Building a shared cloud of nano-satellites in Low Earth Orbit to enable space-based services with zero infrastructure investment
d) AI Labs – An R&D firm to apply general artificial intelligence to increasingly autonomous tele-operated robots and synthetic biology to help create survivable environments, overcome disease and aging, and extend human presence in space
e) Made in Space – Build spacecraft, tools, and other infrastructure in space using 3D printing technologies
f) SpaceBio Labs – Providing cheap and easy access to highly functional biological experiments in space on automated platforms that are reliable for long duration experiments

Who should attend: Anyone interested in finding out how the new wave of technological changes will radically transform humanity as we know it today. Anyone planning to live more than 20 years and see the beginning of the “singularity”.

What you’ll learn: Attendees will be exposed to the main ideas of accelerating change and the major future technologies that will radically change the future of humanity.

How this knowledge can be applied: The ideas discussed will help to individuals to understand accelerating change in order to anticipate and influence the future.

José Luis Cordeiro (moderator) founder, World Future Society (Venezuela Chapter); Chair, Millennium Project (Venezuela Node); Teaching Fellow, Singularity University, Chiba, Japan