Newsrooms. The Transhumanists Arrive - Forbes.com. Singularity University: replicable as distributed learning? Google and Nasa back 'singularity' school for when technology overtakes humans. Singularity University will accept 30 graduate students in its first intake this summer, increasing to 120 next year.
Despite its name, the college is not an accredited university but will offer nine-week courses exploring ways to ensure technology improves mankind's plight instead of harming it. Courses are designed to see how the students can use technology to solve global issues such as poverty, famine, disease, global warming and dwindling energy supplies. The 3Di Web Singularity Redux.