Why Singularity University’s CEO Believes Blockchain Has Gone 'Exponential'

Why Singularity University’s CEO Believes Blockchain Has Gone 'Exponential'

Based in NASA's Research Park, Singularity University has been preparing its students to challenge traditional concepts of technology growth since it was founded by Google’s director of engineering eight years ago. A storied Silicon Valley think tank, Singularity University has an established history of tracking growth rates, and its analysis of new technologies carries significant weight with market observers and businesses. The organization also has a record of accuracy in its predictions, even those that may seem outlandish at first. Based on the organization's methodologies, Google's....


Related News

Abra Wants to be the Uber of Digital Cash, Says Founder Bill Barhydt at Exponential Finance 2015

Sponsored by CNBC and the prestigious Singularity University, the Exponential Finance 2015 took place in New York City on June 2 and 3. The Singularity University is an educational center dedicated to high-impact, world-changing applications of disruptive, exponentially accelerating technologies. Exponential Finance 2015 examined how rapidly accelerating technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, crowdfunding, digital currencies, and robotics are rapidly disrupting businesses throughout the financial industry. The Singularity University's news portal Singularity Hub....

Augur Looks To Succeed Where DARPA, The CIA & DoD Failed With An Open Source Prediction Market

Augur strives to bring prediction markets into the future. The tool, which Director of Operations Jeremy Gardner and Core Developer Joey Krug hope to make prediction markets more accurate than ever, comes with great precedent. But Augur believes, with the power of decentralization and open source technologies, theirs' is truly a paradigm shifting project. The decentralized prediction market has been gaining notoriety in recent months, and was even considered a finalist for the biggest breakthrough technology as voted upon by Singularity University at the Exponential Finance Conference for....

Blockchain Prediction Market Augur Elected as a 'Breakthrough' Finalist at Exponential Finance 2015

Augur, a fully-decentralized, open-source prediction market platform based on blockchain technology, intended to revolutionize forecasting, decision-making and the manner in which information consensus is collected and aggregated, has been selected as one of the five finalists in the "Breakthrough" category at the XCS Challenge at Exponential Finance 2015. The Singularity University and CNBC hosted the Exponential Finance 2015 conference (New York, 2-3 June), which examines how rapidly accelerating technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, crowdfunding, digital....

MIT's Brian Forde: "Companies Will Be Disrupted the Most by Public Blockchains"

The Exponential Finance 2016 conference, organized by Singularity University and CNBC, was held in New York on June 7 and 8. Once again, distributed ledger technology and applications were extensively featured, with MIT Media Lab director Brian Forde giving attendees a glimpse of current initiatives. Singularity University, based at Moffett Federal Airfield in California and sponsored by high-profile high-tech firms including Google, is an educational center dedicated to world-changing applications of disruptive, exponentially accelerating technologies. The Exponential Finance conferences....

Financial Blockchain Applications will be Measured in the Trillions, says Blythe Masters at Exponential Finance 2015

The Singularity University and CNBC are hosting the Exponential Finance 2015 conference n New York, on June 2-3. The conference examines how rapidly accelerating technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, crowdfunding, digital currencies and robotics are rapidly disrupting businesses throughout the financial industry. The Singularity University, based at Moffett Federal Airfield in California and sponsored by high-profile high-tech firms including Google, is an educational center dedicated to world-changing applications of disruptive, exponentially accelerating....