NASA and Google To Back New "Singularity University"

Slatterz and Keith Kleiner were among several readers to send in word of Singularity University, announced at TED today by Ray Kurzweil. He and X Prize founder Peter Diamandis began talking about creating the school last year, after Diamandis read Kurzweil's 2005 book The Singularity is Near. NASA and Google are both supporting the project, NASA with space and Google with cash. The school aims to foster "disruptive innovation." As envisioned, Singularity U. will sponsor 3-day and 10-day courses for executives year-round, and its main offering will be a single 9-week course of study over the summer for 120 students, each of which will pay $25,000 for the privilege. Announced faculty so far includes Nobel Prize winning physicist George Smoot, NASA Ames chief scientist Stephanie Langhoff, Vint Cerf, and Will Wright, creator of the video games Spore and The Sims.

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Singularity, My Ass! I go to the doctor with a ...

[littlewink]

swollen nut and stumble home like Quasimodo with my scrotum in an ice-packed jockstrap and instructions to lie in bed 5 days and take Tylenol if it hurts. This is progress? I'll just bite my nut off myself next time! It couldn't be any harder.

Medicine has promised a cure for cancer for 50 years and still are taking our money. The war on cancer is like the war on drugs, neverending and self-serving for the providers (doctors and hospitals on the one hand, police departments on the other).

Doctors probably kill more than they cure, even today in the West.

Re:here we go

[spun]

Are you really this much of a closed minded ass, or is someone trolling in your name?