Join Singularity University’s winter Executive Program students, and the local business community for tonight’s special event featuring John Mauldin, New York Times best-selling author and recognized financial expert. Tonight’s presentation of “The End Game” will explore how the world’s major economies will develop over the next ten years – an especially crucial topic for current and aspiring entrepreneurs, investors and VCs.
When: Thursday, March 4 @ 7:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Where: NASA Ames, Building 943, Eagle Room. Directions can be found here.
RSVP: http://singularityu-johnmauldin.eventbrite.com/, attendance is free.
John Mauldin is the President of Millennium Wave Advisors, LLC (MWA), an investment advisory firm. Mauldin is a multiple NYT Best Selling author and recognized financial expert. He is a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg and many radio shows across the country. He is the editor of Thoughts from the Frontline, the highly acclaimed, free weekly economic and investment e-letter that goes to over 1 million subscribers each week.
by E. B. Boyd
In his various roles as a computer programmer, an emergency-medicine physician, and the director of Microsoft Medical Media Lab, Michael Gillam stays well ahead of the advances that are transforming health care. Yet even he can be caught unawares by the pace of technological change.
Gillam was reminded of this recently during a nine-day boot camp aimed at instructing professionals on how robotics, nanotechnology, biotechnology, and other cutting-edge disciplines are affecting industries. Gillam, one of 20 participants in Singularity University’s inaugural program for executives, was listening to futurist Ray Kurzweil. “We will have plenty of computation as we go through the 21st century,” Kurzweil told attendees in the small dining room featuring Spanish Mission-style decor. “That is not so controversial. The more controversial aspect is really, will we have the software?”
For the complete story from Business Week, see http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2009/tc20091116_310553.htm.
Via Jason Kinkaid of TechCrunch. For the whole article, see http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/13/singularity-university-executive-program-ray-kurzweils-opening-address/
“Over the last week Singularity University, an educational institution based at NASA Ames that draws some world’s top technologists and futurists, has been holding an Executive Program with the goal of preparing executives for the "imminent disruption and opportunities resulting from exponentially accelerating technologies". The roster of instructors is impressive, with a number of top professors and executives covering fields ranging from stem cells to robotics…”
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