The Singularity is near — and it has a university

The Singularity is near — and it has a university

It seems like everyone is talking about the Singularity these days. There’s a Singularity Institute, a Singularity Summit, and even Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner predicts that the singularity will arrive by 2050. Now the singularity has its own institute of higher learning, appropriately dubbed Singularity University, founded by Peter Diamandis (chairman of the X Prize Foundation) and inventor/futurist Ray Kurzweil, who popularized the idea in his book “The Singularity is Near.”

The Singularity, for… Continue Reading