A 'brave new world' begins from germinating ideas at Singularity University

Hydroponics

Carol Forsloff - Saving the world from ecological, man-made and environmental collapse at times seens a herculean task, but if you had ten weeks to figure out a way to fix things what would you do?. 

Singularity University is a form of think tank in California that allows students to immerse themselves in ideas and projects through lectures, projects and brain-storming.  It is a concept where students combine knowledge in different areas to problem solve.  One summer the notion was ten weeks to come up with solutions for the world's economic and ecological difficulties. 

Futurists like Ray Kurzweil and other scientists are behind the concept that allows students to create and problem solve in unique ways.  One summer's notion of finding solutions in ten weeks that could save the world is just one of the umbrella ideas from the Kurzweil group. 

There are ideas at Singularity in virtually every area of living.  One of them had to do with transportation Ideas into action by students who presented a series of fleets of zero-emissions vehicles not privately owned by able to be accessed by users.  One of the students said about this, a project called GetAround "The vision inspires, but you get believability from the first step."

How about three-dimensional printing.  This concept would allow printers to make their own replacement parts, for example, an idea that would put power into designing on local levels as opposed to productions from China.

 SU graduate Devin Fidler, who had been working on his doctorate in Budapest, put aside those formal studies temporarily to be part of a project called 'Acasa those several years ago."  This was said would allow the building of houses in the developing world for $4,000 using the equivalent of 30 light-bulbs of power. 

As for food, the emphasis is on aeroponics or hydroponics, growing plants without soil.

Students, after putting together ideas like these, then look for individuals to invest in their development of ideas generated in ten weeks in the novel ideas of which ones could save the world environmentally and ecologically. 

Singularity University brings fresh ideas from around the world, as students learn ideas that can help them shape a brave, new world.  But this world is unlike the science fiction one, in that it recognizes the need of the individual as well as the community and the planting of ideas that can grow into other ideas, so that the growth of learning and development continues.

November 2015 will offer a 4-day program where technology and medicine branches will be undertaking brain-storming ideas to develop a new awakening of what is possible.  For at Singularity virtually anything is possible that the brain, and the enthusiasm for learning, can bring about.