Balloon Boy

So I can’t stop laughing about Balloon Boy… some of the dialog between TV commentators while this was going on is just hilarious.
Be the first to buy my Balloon Boy design on Zazzle:

This design by somebody else is great too

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Parachutes and exponential curves

“You have to learn to make the parachute on the way down” — Peter Diamandis at Singularity University describing the need to extrapolate the current trends and start building something that requires a piece of technology that won’t exist for 5 years, but that you absolutely count on existing at that point in time.
(My new [...]

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“They shall laugh and reach out their hands amidst the stars”

Great Singularity University-themed quote: “It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all that the human mind has accomplished is but the dream before the awakening; [...]

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Singularity University: the first three weeks in pictures

Keith Kleiner posted some photos and description of the first three weeks of SU.

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Understatement of the century

I just met someone at the mixer after Singularity University’s public forum, and had a conversation that went like this:

Me: “What do you do?”
The other guy: “I was one of the seed funders for a few startups.”
Me: “Like what, for example?”
The other guy: “Facebook, PayPal, you know…”

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MarketWatch: Google-funded school preps for “disruption”

Some more media coverage of SU.

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Singularity U — First Week (Peter Diamandis’ summary)

“Dear SU Associate Founders, Faculty, Students and Friends - We’ve just completed our first week of Singularity University and I have to say that I’m extremely pleased and proud of what we have created.  It is real, off and running, and here to stay.”  (continued on the SU blog)

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Singularity University Public Panel July 09: “Humanity’s Grandest Challenges”

If anyone’s in the Bay Area this Thursday, this will be the event to be at:
“Join some of the world’s leading experts in public health, climate change, energy, and others as they discuss the “grand challenges” in water, health, the environment, and energy, and identify some of the technical and political issues associated with making [...]

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Singularity University — First Week (Photos)

Someone uploaded a batch of photos of the first week of Singularity University.  I mostly stopped taking photos after the first couple of days because everywhere you look you seem to be looking down the lens barrel of a Canon 5D Mark II either videoing or snapping high-res still photos.  (All of SU is being [...]

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What is Singularity University?

I have struggled to explain what Singularity University actually is whenever people have asked me what I’m doing this summer, and have always struggled to put it into words.  Today the genius of SU finally coalesced within my mind into frameable language.
SU is about convergence. It is about converging technologies, accelerating technologies, for sure — [...]

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