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Hey guys! I've got some really good news.

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I just received the letter from the Singularity University

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saying that I got accepted with a scholarship

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to their Graduate Studies Program.

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- Then what I wanted talk you about is

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not if you are gonna change the world

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but how you are gonna do it.

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- You ask people: Are they working on something...

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that can really change the world?

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And how many people can answer yes?

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You know you look for people who are really trying to make things a lot better

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not just a little better but a lot better.

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I'm really excited for all of you who are studying this.

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If I was a student this is where I would want to be.

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- Why are we here?

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Clearly there are incredible universities around the world

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and it's not to duplicate the efforts.

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It's to provide something distinctly different.

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To have a conversation occur

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that doesn't happen in other places.

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- The tools of creativity, of innovation, of disruptive change

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are in everybody's hands and they are not expensive.

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- One student that we had this year

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was named Fast Company's most influential women of 2010.

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One student has published eight papers

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in neurocomputation and neuroprosthesis.

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One student is a founding member and program director of two NGOs.

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- The youngest one starting coding at the age of four.

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16% to 17% of the students have started companies.

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- It's time to dedicate your lifes

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to solving one of the world biggest challenges

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and if you are not doing that is time to reorient yourself towards that goal.

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Take this admonition to affect one billion people

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and you add to it to affect one billion people positively

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and answer the grand challenges of our times.

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Singularity University is an awesome place

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that was founded in 2008 by Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis

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and a bunch of other cool people.

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The idea is to take 80 among the smartest and the best

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scientists, enterpreneurs and thinkers from around the globe

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and bring them together at the NASA Ames Research Center

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in Silicon Valley for ten weeks.

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We are gonna have a crash course of

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nanotechnology, biotechnology, molecular engineering, artificial intelligence, robotics...

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All the fields that kind of are connected with

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exponentially expanding technologies and

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utilize these technologies to bring about a better world.

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And whatever is you wanna do

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make sure it affects al least one billion people

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positively, within the next ten years. That's the challenge.

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So I'll be spending my whole summer there

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and I'll be meeting of kinds of cool and interesting people

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and start projects with them and really try to kind of

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do something about what I've talking about for years

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but I couldn't really do because I didn't have the resources.

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But now maybe I will!

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If you have any ideas or suggestions post a comment or a video response.

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Make sure you click the subscribe button that

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i think is around here maybe I'm holding it right now like here...

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To get updates on what I'll be doing, the book that I'm writing

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It's all in there just check the video... the web, down below there

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and all sorts of other cool stuff

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Thank you so much for watching this video, let me know what you think.

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Links in the video description.

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I'm really excited about this

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and I can't wait to hear your responses and your ideas

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Tell me about that and I'll see you guys soon.

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