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Climate Solutions

Valo Ventures 2023 Impact Report

Investing in Food Waste Solutions (Valo Ventures)

Beyond Scarcity: Embracing Abundant Materials (Valo Ventures)

Designing for a Circular World (Valo Ventures)

Building a Bridge Between Biodiversity and the Bioeconomy (Valo Ventures)

Accelerating the Clean Energy Transition (Valo Ventures)

Why Climate VC Needs to Adopt LCAs Today (Valo Ventures)

Driving Window Innovation to Combat Climate Change (RMI)

The Cascading Problems Of Not Understanding Weather—And How Aviation Can Solve Them (Airbus Innovation)

Technology Feels Like It’s Accelerating—Because It Actually Is (Singularity University)

How to Think Exponentially and Better Predict the Future (Singularity University)

This Is How to Invent Radical Solutions to Huge Problems (Singularity University)

The Motivating Power of a Massive Transformative Purpose (Singularity University)

Automation Is Eating Jobs, But These Skills Will Always Be Valued In the Workplace, (also published in World Post)

Artificial Intelligence

• Watch: Where AI Is Today, and Where It’s Going in the Future

• The Tiny Brain Chip That May Supercharge Your Mind

• 8 Takes on the Rise of AI and Its Implications

• A Look at IBM’s Watson 5 Years After Its Breathtaking Jeopardy Debut

• These Five Exponential Trends Are Accelerating Robotics

• Google Beating Grandmaster Sedol Is Bigger Than IBM Beating Kasparov

• How Google’s AI Beat a Human at ‘Go’ a Decade Earlier Than Expected

• Are You a Thinking Thing? Why Debating Machine Consciousness Matters

  Original Doodles

Education + Learning

• Why We Need Moonshot Thinking in High School Education

• Don’t Guess, Learn: Rapid Prototyping with Tom Chi [Video]

• Put Down the Textbook: How VR Is Reimagining Classroom Education

Digital Fabrication

• How Reebok Is Breaking the Mold by ‘3D Drawing’ Shoe Soles

• This Intelligent 3D Printer Is Building Big, Beautiful Structures

• We Are What We Make: Manufacturing’s Digital Revolution Is Here

• Archinaut, a 3D Printing Robot to Make Big Structures in Space

• Lowe’s Joins Made In Space to Bring First Commercial Grade 3D Printer to Space

Technology + Society

• Can Technology Mend America’s Divided Healthcare System?

• Finish Him! MegaBots’ Giant Robot Duel Is Finally Going Down

• This Inspiring Teenager Wants to Save Lives With His Flying Robots

• Make Sense of the Future With This Winter Reading List

• The Technologies We’re Most Fired Up to Watch in 2017

• The Ethical Conundrums Technology Confronted Us With This Year

• This Cute Robot Just Wants to Play With Pooh Bear

• The 21st Century Is a Wild Time to Be Alive

• Are There Other Intelligent Civilizations Out There? Two Views on the Fermi Paradox

• “We’re Living During the Most Extraordinary Time Ever in History,”

• 6 Perspectives on How Tech Is Transforming the Economy

• Why We Should Use Behavioral Economics to Design Technology That Doesn’t Kill Us

• Why Digital Overload Is Now Central to the Human Condition

• Technologies We’re Excited to See Bloom in 2016 and Beyond

• Hacking Talent in the Age of the Exponential Human

• Combating Scarcity With Abundance: New Impact Challenge to Tackle California’s Drought

Virtual Reality

• Virtual Reality Is Reshaping Medical Training and Treatment

• How Google Is Revealing Unmapped Areas of the World in Virtual Reality

• Are Movie Theaters About to Disappear? How VR Will Remake Hollywood

FINTECH

• 5 Fintech Companies Using AI to Improve Business

• Get It While It’s Hot: Why Fintech Is a Goldmine for Investors

• Are High Stress Decisions Best Made by Bots?

Biotech & Medical Technology

• Nurse as Maker: Democratizing Medical Innovation Starts Here

• The Astonishing Healthcare Tech of the Future Is Arriving

• Health Devices Are All Too Hackable—Here’s What You Need to Know

• Robotic Tissue-Slicing Microscopes and DIY Crowd Science to Accelerate Research

• “It’s a Powerful Time to Reshape Healthcare Across the Planet,”

• This Engineer Found His Own Brain Tumor Thanks To Open Medical Data

• Blind Woman Receives Bionic Eye, Reads a Clock With Elation

• A Big Year for Biotech: Bugs as Drugs, Precision Gene Editing, and Fake Food

• From Drones to Heartbeat Detecting Devices—Tech Can Aid Disaster Response

• The Future of the Quantified Brain

• What to Expect When You’re Expecting Designer Babies

• This Virtual Assistant Tells You When To Put Down the Bacon

Entrepreneurship  

• Why Design Is Key to Unlocking the Genius Behind Innovation, September 22, 2016

• 5 Big Ideas From Singularity University’s 2016 Global Solutions Program, August 31, 2016

• Master Your Own Destiny: An Interview on Entrepreneurship with Pascal Finette, August 24, 2016

• Build What Matters and Get Sh*t Done: Unfiltered Insights for Entrepreneurs, August 16, 2016

• The Tools of Change Are Here: What Will You Do With Them? June 24, 2016

• Five Startups to Watch From Singularity University’s 2015 Global Solutions Program, February 11, 2016

• Science Fiction’s Greatest Power? Inspiring Us to Build the Future, December 14, 2015

• Taking Flight: Meet the Startups of the 2015 Inaugural SU Labs Accelerator, October 2, 2015

• A Grand Unveiling: Inside the Big Ideas Hatched at the 2015 Graduate Studies Program, August 23, 2015

Expert Interviews

Barry O’Reilly, Author of UnlearnWhy the Most Dangerous Barrier to Leadership Success May Be Success Itself, July 4, 2019

Kris Østergaard, Author of Transforming Legacy Organizations
Transforming Legacy Organizations To Shape Our Collective Future, June 13, 2019

Jamie Wheal, Author of Stealing Fire
Are We About to Unlock the Secrets to Peak Performance? May 14, 2017

Vivek Wadhwa, Author of The Driver in the Driverless Car
Star Trek or Mad Max? Why What Happens in the Future Is Up to Us, April 4, 2017

Michiel Rauws, X2AI
Bridging the Mental Healthcare Gap With Artificial Intelligence, October 10, 2016

Alejandro Tocigl, Miroculus
A Simple Blood Test Helps Cure Cancer by Catching It Early, September 28, 2016

Christine Peterson, Foresight Institute
How Nanotech Will Lead to a Better Future for Us All, August 12, 2016

Brian Forde, MIT Media Lab
Digital Currency Tech Will Be as Transformative as the Internet, June 8, 2016

Alex (Sandy) Pentland, MIT
Big Data Can Be a Profoundly Humanizing Force in Industry, May 16, 2016

Hod Lipson, Columbia University Creative Machines Lab
The Last Frontiers of AI: Can Scientists Design Creativity and Self-Awareness? April 20, 2016

Danielle Applestone, CEO Other Machine Co. 
What Happens to Factories If You Can Manufacture in Your Home? March 30, 2016

Marc Goodman, Author, Future Crimes

• When Electronic Witnesses Are Everywhere, No Secret’s Safe, January 31, 2017

• Smartphones to Bionic Body Parts: Our Tech Can (and Will) Be Used Against Us, December 16, 2015

Exponential Entrepreneurs:
An original Singularity University interview series

The path of entrepreneurship is neither neat nor clearly defined and rarely is it documented in the heat of the moment. We’re pulling the curtain back with this new collection, Exponential Entrepreneurs, to showcase the work and life of impact-driven professionals who are in the midst of their own journeys.

Introduction to series: New Series on Exponential Entrepreneurs Launches Today

• Want a Life of Purpose? Find a Career Dedicated to a Cause Beyond Yourself, December 17, 2015

• Adaptability: The Entrepreneur’s Way, December 3, 2015

• Building the Maker Movement in Baghdad, November 20, 2015

• Technology Is the Great Amplifier of Our Humanity, November 13, 2015

• Meet the Engineer Bringing Wearable Sensors and AI to Autism Therapy, November 5, 2015

• 3D Mapping the World’s Reefs With Sly Lee, October 29, 2015

• How Future Cities Will Reconnect Humans and Nature, October 22, 2015

• There’s a Robot Waiting to Treat Your Predicted Heart Attack, October 15, 2015

Additional Publications

Thought Catalog: 

• Use This Blueprint To Overcome Your Fears, July 17, 2018

• Basing Your Self-Worth On Achievement Is Dangerous And Harmful, December 5, 2015

• There Are No Hacks To A Meaningful Life, June 10, 2015

Creator by WeWork:

• It’s Bigger Than an Idea: the Journey of the Founders of Ideapod, February 21, 2015

• Testing the Waters of the Freelance Economy, February 2, 2015

• Get the best Fundraising Strategies from Successful Startup Founders, October 27, 2014

FOND Group: 

• Fond Group's Head of Non-Profit Partnerships, Josh Elkes, Runs 230 Miles Across Haiti in Fundraiser, May 16, 2015

• Sharing a day of Aloha at Aha Kai Aloha Festival, March 2, 2015

• New Yorkers are Hungry for the Outdoors, September 29, 2014