1 00:00:01,579 --> 00:00:03,042 Hey guys! I've got some really good news. 2 00:00:03,042 --> 00:00:06,153 I just received the letter from the Singularity University 3 00:00:06,153 --> 00:00:09,149 saying that I got accepted with a scholarship 4 00:00:09,149 --> 00:00:11,076 to their Graduate Studies Program. 5 00:00:13,107 --> 00:00:16,331 - Then what I wanted talk you about is 6 00:00:16,331 --> 00:00:18,878 not if you are gonna change the world 7 00:00:18,878 --> 00:00:21,571 but how you are gonna do it. 8 00:00:21,571 --> 00:00:24,102 - You ask people: Are they working on something... 9 00:00:24,102 --> 00:00:26,587 that can really change the world? 10 00:00:26,587 --> 00:00:28,925 And how many people can answer yes? 11 00:00:28,925 --> 00:00:31,974 You know you look for people who are really trying to make things a lot better 12 00:00:31,974 --> 00:00:33,878 not just a little better but a lot better. 13 00:00:33,878 --> 00:00:36,943 I'm really excited for all of you who are studying this. 14 00:00:36,943 --> 00:00:40,458 If I was a student this is where I would want to be. 15 00:00:42,719 --> 00:00:45,349 - Why are we here? 16 00:00:45,349 --> 00:00:48,715 Clearly there are incredible universities around the world 17 00:00:48,715 --> 00:00:51,595 and it's not to duplicate the efforts. 18 00:00:51,595 --> 00:00:55,426 It's to provide something distinctly different. 19 00:00:55,426 --> 00:00:58,538 To have a conversation occur 20 00:00:58,538 --> 00:01:01,045 that doesn't happen in other places. 21 00:01:01,045 --> 00:01:04,877 - The tools of creativity, of innovation, of disruptive change 22 00:01:04,877 --> 00:01:07,624 are in everybody's hands and they are not expensive. 23 00:01:07,624 --> 00:01:09,869 - One student that we had this year 24 00:01:09,869 --> 00:01:13,236 was named Fast Company's most influential women of 2010. 25 00:01:13,236 --> 00:01:15,627 One student has published eight papers 26 00:01:15,627 --> 00:01:18,135 in neurocomputation and neuroprosthesis. 27 00:01:18,135 --> 00:01:21,456 One student is a founding member and program director of two NGOs. 28 00:01:21,456 --> 00:01:24,141 - The youngest one starting coding at the age of four. 29 00:01:24,141 --> 00:01:27,957 16% to 17% of the students have started companies. 30 00:01:27,957 --> 00:01:29,768 - It's time to dedicate your lifes 31 00:01:29,768 --> 00:01:32,532 to solving one of the world biggest challenges 32 00:01:32,532 --> 00:01:35,689 and if you are not doing that is time to reorient yourself towards that goal. 33 00:01:35,689 --> 00:01:40,310 Take this admonition to affect one billion people 34 00:01:40,310 --> 00:01:44,211 and you add to it to affect one billion people positively 35 00:01:44,211 --> 00:01:47,485 and answer the grand challenges of our times. 36 00:01:47,485 --> 00:01:50,086 Singularity University is an awesome place 37 00:01:50,086 --> 00:01:53,987 that was founded in 2008 by Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis 38 00:01:53,987 --> 00:01:56,100 and a bunch of other cool people. 39 00:01:56,100 --> 00:01:58,954 The idea is to take 80 among the smartest and the best 40 00:01:58,954 --> 00:02:03,344 scientists, enterpreneurs and thinkers from around the globe 41 00:02:03,344 --> 00:02:07,640 and bring them together at the NASA Ames Research Center 42 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:09,940 in Silicon Valley for ten weeks. 43 00:02:09,940 --> 00:02:12,052 We are gonna have a crash course of 44 00:02:12,052 --> 00:02:17,787 nanotechnology, biotechnology, molecular engineering, artificial intelligence, robotics... 45 00:02:17,787 --> 00:02:20,411 All the fields that kind of are connected with 46 00:02:20,411 --> 00:02:23,035 exponentially expanding technologies and 47 00:02:23,035 --> 00:02:27,331 utilize these technologies to bring about a better world. 48 00:02:27,331 --> 00:02:30,187 And whatever is you wanna do 49 00:02:30,187 --> 00:02:34,598 make sure it affects al least one billion people 50 00:02:34,598 --> 00:02:38,453 positively, within the next ten years. That's the challenge. 51 00:02:38,453 --> 00:02:40,938 So I'll be spending my whole summer there 52 00:02:40,938 --> 00:02:44,258 and I'll be meeting of kinds of cool and interesting people 53 00:02:44,258 --> 00:02:47,857 and start projects with them and really try to kind of 54 00:02:47,857 --> 00:02:50,992 do something about what I've talking about for years 55 00:02:50,992 --> 00:02:53,662 but I couldn't really do because I didn't have the resources. 56 00:02:53,662 --> 00:02:55,334 But now maybe I will! 57 00:02:55,334 --> 00:02:59,188 If you have any ideas or suggestions post a comment or a video response. 58 00:02:59,188 --> 00:03:01,325 Make sure you click the subscribe button that 59 00:03:01,325 --> 00:03:05,899 i think is around here maybe I'm holding it right now like here... 60 00:03:05,899 --> 00:03:09,730 To get updates on what I'll be doing, the book that I'm writing 61 00:03:09,730 --> 00:03:14,746 It's all in there just check the video... the web, down below there 62 00:03:14,746 --> 00:03:16,510 and all sorts of other cool stuff 63 00:03:16,510 --> 00:03:19,552 Thank you so much for watching this video, let me know what you think. 64 00:03:19,552 --> 00:03:21,433 Links in the video description. 65 00:03:21,433 --> 00:03:22,942 I'm really excited about this 66 00:03:22,942 --> 00:03:25,195 and I can't wait to hear your responses and your ideas 67 00:03:25,195 --> 00:03:27,610 Tell me about that and I'll see you guys soon. 68 00:03:29,888 --> 00:03:40,595 [Please if you don't speak english email at volunteer@name.here we'll translate your message for you]