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From the Ted Talk by Ray Kurzweil: A university for the coming singularity

Unscramble the Blue Letters


We ultimately will merge with this toeloncghy. It's already very close to us. When I was a student it was across campus, now it's in our pockets. What used to take up a building now fits in our pockets. What now fits in our pockets would fit in a blood cell in 25 years. And we will begin to actually deeply influence our health and our intelligence, as we get closer and closer to this technology.

Based on that we are announcing, here at TED, in true TED tradition, Singularity University. It's a new university that's fnueodd by Peter Diamandis, who is here in the audience, and myself. It's backed by NASA and Google, and other leaders in the high-tech and science community. And our goal was to assemble the leaders, both trehecas and students, in these exonptialnely growing information tcegoleoinhs, and their application. But Larry Page made an iaisenmpsod seecph at our organizing meeting, saying we should devote this study to actually addressing some of the major caeeghnlls fancig hanitumy. And if we did that, then Google would back this. And so that's what we've done.

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We ultimately will merge with this __________. It's already very close to us. When I was a student it was across campus, now it's in our pockets. What used to take up a building now fits in our pockets. What now fits in our pockets would fit in a blood cell in 25 years. And we will begin to actually deeply influence our health and our intelligence, as we get closer and closer to this technology.

Based on that we are announcing, here at TED, in true TED tradition, Singularity University. It's a new university that's _______ by Peter Diamandis, who is here in the audience, and myself. It's backed by NASA and Google, and other leaders in the high-tech and science community. And our goal was to assemble the leaders, both ________ and students, in these _____________ growing information ____________, and their application. But Larry Page made an ___________ ______ at our organizing meeting, saying we should devote this study to actually addressing some of the major __________ ______ ________. And if we did that, then Google would back this. And so that's what we've done.

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Original Text


We ultimately will merge with this technology. It's already very close to us. When I was a student it was across campus, now it's in our pockets. What used to take up a building now fits in our pockets. What now fits in our pockets would fit in a blood cell in 25 years. And we will begin to actually deeply influence our health and our intelligence, as we get closer and closer to this technology.

Based on that we are announcing, here at TED, in true TED tradition, Singularity University. It's a new university that's founded by Peter Diamandis, who is here in the audience, and myself. It's backed by NASA and Google, and other leaders in the high-tech and science community. And our goal was to assemble the leaders, both teachers and students, in these exponentially growing information technologies, and their application. But Larry Page made an impassioned speech at our organizing meeting, saying we should devote this study to actually addressing some of the major challenges facing humanity. And if we did that, then Google would back this. And so that's what we've done.

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