Darlene Damm of Singularity University – Solving Social Problems with Exponential Technologies

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Darlene Damm is a Principal Faculty Member for Global Grand Challenges with Singularity University. Darlene works on leveraging exponential technologies to resolve the world’s thorniest societal issues like education, malnutrition, poverty, access to energy and the internet.
Darlene discusses exponential technology, it's scope and how it is being used to solve the social problems around the world impacting more than a billion people. She refers to some of the start-ups Singularity University's' faculty have mentored successfully who are solving the problems in the healthcare field (ex: diagnosing the disease through artificial intelligence, and one start-up using AI to predict water supply and availability. Another startup is working to produce meat for consumption from stem cells preventing animals from being slaughtered.
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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:08.0	Future Technologies Hoyts to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast.
0:13.7	Almost here means these technologies are now here and
0:16.8	starting to be used.
0:18.2	We're just around the corner.
0:19.8	From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,
0:22.1	3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:25.6	Hi, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcasts.
0:29.6	Please excuse my Raspi voice today.
0:31.8	We have got a great guest, another person from St. Larrity
0:35.3	University, Darlene Dam, and we're going to be talking about some social innovation type
0:41.2	projects she's working on.
0:43.0	Welcome to Arlene, how you doing?
0:45.3	Thank you.
0:47.3	Yeah, thanks for Carmen.
0:49.2	So would you give listeners an idea of the projects that you're working on in the realm of social innovation?
0:57.0	What are you working on?
0:58.0	Yeah, so I, my role at Singularity University is I'm the Vice Chair of Global Grand Challenges and on our faculty side, which means that I help people
1:09.7	understand how you can use exponential technologies to solve our biggest social problems, and
1:16.2	also what are some of the social problems that might be arising because of exponential
1:20.7	technology.
1:22.2	So we work with a lot of different people in companies, governments,
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