(2018-02-17) Silicon Valley's Singularity University Is Close To Flunking Out

Silicon Valley’s Singularity University Is Close to Flunking Out

Ray Kurzweil announced the program during a TED Talk in 2009,

Alumni say for-profit Singularity is becoming just another organizer of conferences and executive seminars. It’s weighing buying the seminar company Abundance 360, started by Singularity co-founder Peter Diamandis. “It’s lost its soul,” says Vivek Wadhwa, who ran the faculty until 2013 and is at Carnegie Mellon University. “It’s become a moneymaking corporation.”