Today there are more than 1,400 billionaires and 93,000 “ultra-high-net-worth” individuals. Many of these are young, entrepreneurs who have made their money in technology and are interested in using that wealth to slay some of the world’s grand challenges. We call these individuals Technophilanthropists.
Chapter 1: Our Grandest Challenge
Our Grandest Challenge – We open with the history of aluminum and the idea of technology as a resource-liberating mechanism, freeing us from the threat of scarcity. Visit Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s energy city of the future. Learn about the Limits to Growth, a pessimistic vision of the future which set expectations for many generations, and drove efforts to control population growth. The Chapter closes outlining the possibility of Abundance and outlining the four forces conspiring to transform our planet.
Your education doesn’t have to stop once you get out of school—being free of the classroom just means you have more control over what you learn and when you learn it. We’ve put together a curriculum of some of the best free online classes available on the web this spring for the first term of Lifehacker U, our regularly-updating guide to improving your life with free, online college-level classes. Let’s get started.
Title photo remixed from an original by Stuart Seeger.
Peter Diamandis, Chairman and Co-Founder of Singularity University, discusses the best way to predict the future, and shares his personal philosophies on innovation and the commercial space industry. Flimed at Singularity University’s Executive Program, March 2010.
The Team Project for SU’s Graduate Studies Program is the centerpiece of the curriculum where students are given a challenging, interdisciplinary, and real world problem that exemplifies one of humanity’s grand challenges. Team Projects are called 10⁹+ (ten to the ninth, plus), meaning that students will be asked how they can impact 1 Billion people, worldwide, in a positive way, within 10-years time leveraging accelerating technologies.
FOR A LIST OF THE CURRENT X-PRIZES SEE: xprize.org
In 1979 in San Diego, California a forward thinking business school was held, and attending was Buckminster Fuller, his wife at a gathering of 65 students and various instructors at the Burklyn Business School. Futurepredictions.com Blog Author, Buckminster Fuller, & Mrs. Fuller (Nov. 1979) Dymaxion map folded into an icosahedron
Some background on the business school founders:
One of the founders from 1979 was
DC Cordova
CEO
Excellerated Business Schools®/Money & You® Program
DC Cordova is the CEO of the international organization that presents the famous Money & You® Program and the first ever Business School for Social Entrepreneurs, the Excellerated Business School® for Entrepreneurs. Since 1979, DC has led Excellerated to pioneer high-speed, experiential entrepreneurship educational programs that have transformed the lives of tens of thousands of participants – and through them, millions of people around the world.
To date, Excellerated is a global organization with more than 70,000 graduates from over 65 countries, with entrepreneurial programs mainly conducted in both English and Chinese languages in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Brunei.
Book Review Excerpt: (Bobbi Porter – Quantum Learning)
“A little more than 20 years ago, DePorter was a San Francisco homemaker who decided to venture into the world of real estate. Hawthorne-Stone, the firm with which she wound up, was unique. It emphasized a noncompetitive, “win-win” approach to doing business, and DePorter soon earned more than a million dollars. So impressed was she with the company’s philosophy that she incorporated it into an innovative school she and one of the firm’s partners “Marshall Thurber”, started in Vermont, called the Burklyn Business School, whose instructors included Buckminster Fuller. Though the school failed because of bad investments, DePorter remained committed to its nontraditional approaches to learning, which she detailed in Quantum Learning (1992). She now applies these principles at the Learning Forum, which she cofounded and which conducts a SuperCamp for children and advises companies on training programs.”
“In addition to starting numerous business ventures and companies, Mr. Thurber was the founder of the Burklyn Business School, designed to teach business principles through accelerated learning methods. Mr. Thurber is also the creator of Money & You, the Future of Business I and II, the Secrets of Powerful Presentations, The Accounting Game, The Leadership Development Training, The Global Leadership Network Training, the Future of Business/The Essence of Deming, and Mega Management.
So, it appears that Burklyn was some sort of a TQM program. Hey, has anyone ever gone through that stuff. Walk into work one day and there is this guy in a nice suit talking with the owner and the next thing you know you are going through some sort of diversity training or TQM seminar and taking Meyers Briggs personality profiles and talking about whether your commrade coworker is an intj or an esft and blah blah blah…and the boss thinks this is so cool it is going to take the company from being Joe Smith’s Blacksmith Shop to JSBS International (Fortune 100 NYSE traded) so this guy hangs around for a few months at a grand a day and ya have all sorts of new human resource people running around talking this psycho babble and …….. the next thing you know the guy is gone.”
“The years following saw extensive research and practice in the development of what is now become the Pacific Planning Institute. Included are technologies gleaned from the Synergetics and linguistics of Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller, the relativity research of Dr. Albert Einstein, Quality processes from Dr. W. Edwards Deming, NLP [Neuro-Linguistic Programming] of John Grinder, Richard Bandler, and Antony Robbins, linguistics of L. Ron Hubbard, presentation and negotiation techniques of Marshall Thruber, lateral thinking of DiBonno, integrated brain techniques of Tony Buzan, “Superlearning” of Ostrander and Schroeder, thought technology of Robert Fritz, meeting efficiency and rapport building of Genie Laborde, and much more.”
Thanks to Michael Kaufman who in 1979 brought many souls to attend Money & You, and Burklyn Business School who leads efforts with Innovation Labs LLC and continues to carry on the good work of improving our society one block at a time.
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Dymaxion map folded into an icosahedron
