WEBVTT 00:00:01.579 --> 00:00:03.042 Hey guys! I've got some really good news. 00:00:03.042 --> 00:00:06.153 I just received the letter from the Singularity University 00:00:06.153 --> 00:00:09.149 saying that I got accepted with a scholarship 00:00:09.149 --> 00:00:11.076 to their Graduate Studies Program. 00:00:13.107 --> 00:00:16.331 - Then what I wanted talk you about is 00:00:16.331 --> 00:00:18.878 not if you are gonna change the world 00:00:18.878 --> 00:00:21.571 but how you are gonna do it. 00:00:21.571 --> 00:00:24.102 - You ask people: Are they working on something... 00:00:24.102 --> 00:00:26.587 that can really change the world? 00:00:26.587 --> 00:00:28.925 And how many people can answer yes? 00:00:28.925 --> 00:00:31.974 You know you look for people who are really trying to make things a lot better 00:00:31.974 --> 00:00:33.878 not just a little better but a lot better. 00:00:33.878 --> 00:00:36.943 I'm really excited for all of you who are studying this. 00:00:36.943 --> 00:00:40.458 If I was a student this is where I would want to be. 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:45.349 - Why are we here? 00:00:45.349 --> 00:00:48.715 Clearly there are incredible universities around the world 00:00:48.715 --> 00:00:51.595 and it's not to duplicate the efforts. 00:00:51.595 --> 00:00:55.426 It's to provide something distinctly different. 00:00:55.426 --> 00:00:58.538 To have a conversation occur 00:00:58.538 --> 00:01:01.045 that doesn't happen in other places. 00:01:01.045 --> 00:01:04.877 - The tools of creativity, of innovation, of disruptive change 00:01:04.877 --> 00:01:07.624 are in everybody's hands and they are not expensive. 00:01:07.624 --> 00:01:09.869 - One student that we had this year 00:01:09.869 --> 00:01:13.236 was named Fast Company's most influential women of 2010. 00:01:13.236 --> 00:01:15.627 One student has published eight papers 00:01:15.627 --> 00:01:18.135 in neurocomputation and neuroprosthesis. 00:01:18.135 --> 00:01:21.456 One student is a founding member and program director of two NGOs. 00:01:21.456 --> 00:01:24.141 - The youngest one starting coding at the age of four. 00:01:24.141 --> 00:01:27.957 16% to 17% of the students have started companies. 00:01:27.957 --> 00:01:29.768 - It's time to dedicate your lifes 00:01:29.768 --> 00:01:32.532 to solving one of the world biggest challenges 00:01:32.532 --> 00:01:35.689 and if you are not doing that is time to reorient yourself towards that goal. 00:01:35.689 --> 00:01:40.310 Take this admonition to affect one billion people 00:01:40.310 --> 00:01:44.211 and you add to it to affect one billion people positively 00:01:44.211 --> 00:01:47.485 and answer the grand challenges of our times. 00:01:47.485 --> 00:01:50.086 Singularity University is an awesome place 00:01:50.086 --> 00:01:53.987 that was founded in 2008 by Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis 00:01:53.987 --> 00:01:56.100 and a bunch of other cool people. 00:01:56.100 --> 00:01:58.954 The idea is to take 80 among the smartest and the best 00:01:58.954 --> 00:02:03.344 scientists, enterpreneurs and thinkers from around the globe 00:02:03.344 --> 00:02:07.640 and bring them together at the NASA Ames Research Center 00:02:07.640 --> 00:02:09.940 in Silicon Valley for ten weeks. 00:02:09.940 --> 00:02:12.052 We are gonna have a crash course of 00:02:12.052 --> 00:02:17.787 nanotechnology, biotechnology, molecular engineering, artificial intelligence, robotics... 00:02:17.787 --> 00:02:20.411 All the fields that kind of are connected with 00:02:20.411 --> 00:02:23.035 exponentially expanding technologies and 00:02:23.035 --> 00:02:27.331 utilize these technologies to bring about a better world. 00:02:27.331 --> 00:02:30.187 And whatever is you wanna do 00:02:30.187 --> 00:02:34.598 make sure it affects al least one billion people 00:02:34.598 --> 00:02:38.453 positively, within the next ten years. That's the challenge. 00:02:38.453 --> 00:02:40.938 So I'll be spending my whole summer there 00:02:40.938 --> 00:02:44.258 and I'll be meeting of kinds of cool and interesting people 00:02:44.258 --> 00:02:47.857 and start projects with them and really try to kind of 00:02:47.857 --> 00:02:50.992 do something about what I've talking about for years 00:02:50.992 --> 00:02:53.662 but I couldn't really do because I didn't have the resources. 00:02:53.662 --> 00:02:55.334 But now maybe I will! 00:02:55.334 --> 00:02:59.188 If you have any ideas or suggestions post a comment or a video response. 00:02:59.188 --> 00:03:01.325 Make sure you click the subscribe button that 00:03:01.325 --> 00:03:05.899 i think is around here maybe I'm holding it right now like here... 00:03:05.899 --> 00:03:09.730 To get updates on what I'll be doing, the book that I'm writing 00:03:09.730 --> 00:03:14.746 It's all in there just check the video... the web, down below there 00:03:14.746 --> 00:03:16.510 and all sorts of other cool stuff 00:03:16.510 --> 00:03:19.552 Thank you so much for watching this video, let me know what you think. 00:03:19.552 --> 00:03:21.433 Links in the video description. 00:03:21.433 --> 00:03:22.942 I'm really excited about this 00:03:22.942 --> 00:03:25.195 and I can't wait to hear your responses and your ideas 00:03:25.195 --> 00:03:27.610 Tell me about that and I'll see you guys soon. 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]