Category Archives: innovation

Grace & Glory: The Story of Peace, Tolerance, and the Promise of Olympic eSports

Uniting fans, the maker movement and youth culture around the world behind the common ideals of grace, glory, excellence, and sportsmanship is a way to hack human culture for positive impact. Indeed, the loom is set, and now it will spread like mycelium, empowering the weavers to take center stage as heroes of the knowledge-worker gaming class. The arrival of Olympic eSports is dawning.

What is Artificial Intelligence really, and why is it so rad?

“Artificial Intelligence cannot avoid philosophy. If a computer program is to behave intelligently in the real world, it must be provided with some kind of framework into which to fit particular facts it is told or discovers. This amounts to at least a fragment of some kind of philosophy, however naive.”

The Secrets of Singularity University’s Hottest New Start-Ups — Introducing the #GSP14 Batch

What the GSP14 startup teams have accomplished in only 3 weeks time is truly amazing. Carbon nano-tube tricoder medical device anyone? Howabout an intelligent maxi-pad that syncs to your iPhone? How about re-imagining hearing aid devices to bring life-saving augmented-reality to the growing elderly population?

WE ARE WATER: Reinventing Water Sustainability with Exponential Innovation and Why We Must Hack the Drought

Imagine a future where droughts have been hacked, where drought — as a concept — is a non-issue. The entire concept of a drought, has been hacked. It doesn’t even exist in our language in the future; it will be a forgotten word. This is what I want and its what we all want. Water is life, it’s flow is our main lifesource.