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Finding Genius Podcast

How Singularity University Is Saving the World and You Can Be a Part of It With Nicholas Haan

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Listen to Nicholas Haan talk about Singularity University’s flagship program, Global Solutions, a 10-week session where 80 innovators from around the world learn new technologies and apply them to solve worldwide challenges.
Here’s a sampling of what you’ll discover:

* The start-ups and innovations that have originated from Singularity University’s Global Solutions Program and how they are impacting the world for the better
* How diversity drives this innovation
* How you can get in on the action

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Transcript

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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 Boys To Transform Our Lives, for better or worse, are the focus of this podcast.

0:13.6

Almost here, means these technologies are now here and

0:16.7

starting to be used.

0:18.2

We're just around the corner.

0:19.7

From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,

0:22.0

3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

0:25.4

Hi, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast, and as promised, we're rounding up all the

0:31.5

Singularity university faculty and

0:33.7

interviewing every single one if we can so today I have Nicholas Han and we're gonna

0:38.7

talk about his work both with and outside of Singularity University.

0:43.0

Nicholas, how you doing?

0:44.0

I'm doing very well, thank you.

0:46.0

Yeah.

0:47.0

So if you would, let me know the projects you're working on because I know all the singularity people are working on three or four at a time typically and

0:56.3

you know there's a lot to describe so go ahead. Sure sure so my role at at Singularity University is

1:02.1

vice president of impact and faculty chair of our Global

1:04.8

Grand Challenges is really to help the university optimize its overall positive impact in the world, leveraging exponential technology and leveraging

1:15.4

amazing innovates around the planet.

1:18.1

So that's what I wake up thinking about in the morning, go to bed at night thinking about.

1:24.3

I also oversee our overall curriculum on Global Grand Challenges, frame those challenges,

1:31.1

look for opportunities for innovation and activate innovators to come up with

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