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Important Announcement

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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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    [Please if you don't speak english email at volunteer@name.here we'll translate your message for you]
Title:
Important Announcement
Description:

Hurray! I will be spending my summer at the Singularity University's Graduate Studies Program 2012, NASA - Ames Research Center, Silicon Valley.
http://singularityu.org/

Singularity University is non profit whose aim is to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies and apply, focus and guide these tools to address humanity's grand challenges.
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