Comments on: Leading futurists, thinkers to launch Silicon Valley university

Dubbed Singularity University, the new program, run by Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis, will focus on exponentially growing technologies.

[dascha1]

I'm curious as to why Silicon Valley was chosen. This is a very big country (i.e. USA). One, two, or more, could've chosen Harrisonburg, Virginia where the birth of new things happening at a University there, and ironically, was started as a Womens' Teaching College.

Good luck though

[BCCM]

If we can take politics and political pandering (lobbying) out of the equation, anything can succeed on its own merits. If NASA is involved there is little chance this can happen. If history is any indicator get ready for another educational program cloaked in charitable underpinnings........needing endless government funding to make it work. Which leads us to ask a pointed question. How can an agency support and fund educational outreach and new discoveries on the one hand while simultaneously work behind the scenes to selectively prop up a surreptitious program of scientific misconduct by falsification and fabrication and censorship. The two ideas just challenge the cerebral cortex launching logical thinkers into an early onset of intellectual rigor mortis. Perhaps the answer may lie in the tried and true tactic of censoring those who threaten your program of fraud. To eliminate this NASA may want to finally use CFR-1275, Investigation of Research Misconduct-as a small step for man and a giant leap for NASA.

http://www.bccmeteorites.com/misconduct-planetary.html

[CyberWoLfman]

It certainly sounds like an interesting program, and maybe they'll discuss some new technology that'll make people's lives easier which will actually make it into consumers' hands, un-like things such as electronarcosis, virtual retinal displays, and . . . some other things. Heck, I'd love to be part of this, myself, but . . . There's no way I can afford the $25,000. Ouch!

I'm looking forward to the day that everybody in the world can get whatever level of education they'd like, for free, and the effort and money people put towards hurting others, and screwing them over goes towards making the world a better place, but . . . LOL Humans being the way they are, I'm very certain that it'll never happen ere the trump of doom.

[monoclemonkey]

Yeah, it sounds great. Too bad they skimped on their hosting. The link takes jumpers to bluehost's suspended page (http://tr.im/ed6z) [Yesterday: "Hey, you think anyone will read that article on Cutting Edge." - "Nay. Not like it is CNET"] Wonder how many people they lost? [A month ago:"11.99 is too much an investment for a program that costs 2500 dollars per week. Go with the 7.99/mo."]

[mislitel]

So they want to charge $25K (according to previous comment) while hosting their site at $7/month bluehost.com account (which is now suspended)? I certainly expected better than that (on both counts) from those very smart and tech-savvy people.

[djensen47]

It is interesting that there was no mention of the fact that immediately next door to this new university is Carnegie-Mellon University Silicon Valley (http://www.cmu.edu/silicon-valley/), which has been around since 2002. It literally takes 60 seconds to walk from one to the other.

I'm certain the charter of the CMU SV campus and Singularity University are widely different but I still think it is note-worthy.

[farbuckle]

OK, so Kurzweil has this great idea in his Singularity book. See, we need this philosophy that will be based on -- wait for it -- respect among sentient beings, so that computer/cyborg./whatzitzs will commune with humans until we create this great godhead thingy that will be all knowing along side us, who will of course be immortal.

Srsly.

[Zaphod_Beeblebrox]

Another Silly Valley boondoggle.