Which direction the world goes.

Recently, I watched the lateset TED talk show about the medical's future. The speaker gave a short touch on the place call "Singularity University". Its name attracted me so much, reminded me of the "Xavier School" where X-Men study. So I went to search engine and started finding what is that place.

Surprisingly, it IS an actual university.

This is the mission statement;

"Singularity University  is an interdisciplinary university whose mission is to assemble, educate and inspire leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies in order to address humanity’s grand challenges."

To convince myself to believe in the existance of this university, its location is in NASA Ames in Silicon Valley, which, probably, place where one of my friend interns there.

You have to understand my position first before move to the next line. At my first glance, this university seems to be....fashionable, fantastic, and unreal. It is like a school from the scientific fiction where the genius go and study together to lead the future of the humanity (Sheldon* might graduate from this school). I can say it is....dream.


So whatever the actual mission of the school ($25,000 tuition fee with 25% acceptance. Pretty high, huh?) I think it is the place where the dream come closer to the reality.

Whether this school would drive the future of the humanity or not, but the point is, there are people who intend to do that.

I am looking forward to see how this institute works, where there is around 100 people join this academic each year, and those people could change the life of thousand billion people around the world.


And I am not sure whether this place would bring the leader of the humanity's future, or just expand the gap amoung human's society.




*My favorite character from The Big Bang Theory series.

p.s. As we explore the world, this journey seems to be endless. The world always expand toward the place where we once call dream.
p.s.2 Like the expansion of universe (when the scientists explore the expansion of our universe, it seems to be expanding in all directions with the equal speed, a.k.a, expand around our position.)
p.s.3 the above line is far beyond this discussion.