General | David Orban

Exponential Impact at the Singularity University Global Summit

September 17, 2016 / General

At Singularity University we address the world’s greatest challenges, through the application of exponential technologies, spreading knowledge through conferences, educating through our courses, and creating, accelerating and funding startups. Accelerating technology implemented through an increasing understanding of the world is at the basis of our effort to address the greatest challenges humanity faces. In a […]

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Exponential Governance – Network Society Research becomes a Singularity University Company

May 3, 2016 / General

Applying exponential technologies to the Global Grand Challenge of Governance, Network Society Research becomes a Singularity University Company. How can we adapt to the rapidly changing technological landscape? Not only as an individual, or an enterprise, but our society as a whole? How can we make sure that while we protect ourselves from downsides, we also

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Force Multipliers to Achieve Your Impact

March 20, 2016 / General

More and more people realize that their mission in life can and should be more than mere survival, and wether it is furthering our knowledge and understanding of the world, or helping others, they leverage the tools, networks and relationships that are available to all of us today. Singularity University’s Global Impact Competitions aim to

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Get off the pedestal to live the change

February 28, 2016 / General

I am often asked what is the role of parents, and teachers in an era of rapid change. How can they know that they are doing the right thing in their roles? What is the best way to provide an example, while exposing the new generations to the stimulation of the new? The short answer

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Technology Gives Form to our Moral Ambitions

February 7, 2016 / General

In the thousands of years that we have built human societies we haven’t become better people. But still, there have been common decisions that we can doubtlessly call morally superior: outlawing slavery, child labor, and many others. The difference is represented by technology, whose development gives rise to new levels of understanding what is possible.

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Lindbergh’s Lesson: Contests and Competition Supercharge Innovation

February 1, 2016 / General

When Lindbergh made his successful transatlantic flight, it was to win a contest that catalyzed competition and innovation in the field of aviation. Inspired by the lesson of the Orteig Prize, the various Global Impact Competition contests around the world award a scholarship for Singularity University’s Global Solution Program for innovators that want to positively

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I Believe in Heterodoxy

January 23, 2016 / General

A naturalistic outlook offers the thrill of an unending exploration. The tools of science and reason have evolved to explore and understand the world and ourselves. We don’t know everything, but we are learning every day. I believe in this quest. I also believe that it is useful to test audacious hypotheses and that the

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Can You Change My Mind?

January 8, 2016 / General

Self-awareness, and introspection are uniquely evolved human capabilities. Recognizing our own identity and states of mind brings us to question how well we are coping with our challenges. A dogmatic attitude will rigidly pretend that all is well, that all assumptions are valid, and that there is no need to worry. A more thoughtful and

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A Network of Ideas Evolves Local Solutions into Global Ones

December 27, 2015 / General

We built interconnected platforms that span the globe – of communications, trade, culture and language. Millions of people already use them to develop and test solutions to problems about which they are passionate. There are unbounded opportunities. Soon there will be billions empowered by these tools and emancipated to deploy them for the betterment of

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Blinded by our senses?

December 12, 2015 / General

In a full scale labyrinth representing the center of Athens, in absolute darkness, I spent an hour with a blind guide discovering what it means to not to see, at “Dialogue in the Dark”. The challenges and the curious and the deep discoveries that one can make in this adventure are enlightening. We take for

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