TRILLION DOLLAR CHALLENGES

AREA: ENTREPRENEURSHIP SESSIONS: 10

PROFESSOR: JOE HASLAM

B. Comm., University College Cork, IrelandM.Sc., University College Cork, Ireland

International MBA, IE Business School, Spain Kauffman Foundation Global Partner Network (KGPN)

Perot Systems, VISION Consulting, Electronic Arts, Panda SecurityMentor: Wayra, Startup Bootcamp, Lisbon Challenge, IE Venture Lab

Founding Team: marrakech.com, hot.co.uk Advisory Board: @camareroapp, @innubu, @sharedsecrets

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"exponential technologies …. are enabling small teams to do what was once onlypossible for governments and large corporations"

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STUDENT FEEDBACK

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COURSE OBJECTIVE

The biggest event that will occur in the working lives of MBA students today is “Singularity”.At a time in the future (most experts agree within 20 years) machines will become sopowerful that they rival human intelligence.

Singularity will give an opportunity to the coming generation to make lots of money bydoing something that also makes a difference. To paraphrase former @Facebookresearch scientist @hackingdata the best minds of a generation can work on challenges suchas how to cure cancer or how to provide clean water for billions, not on how to make peopleclick on ads.

Previously this course was called Humanities Grand Challenges. The name was changedto Trillion Dollar Challenges to reflect that it seeks to take a market driven route to solvingthe world´s problems as opposed to one based on charity and aid.

Over 10 sessions, I will show you about one thousand ways in which our world is brokenand some of what is happening to fix it. I don’t mind if you find 99.9% of these problemsuninteresting as long as I find one challenge that makes you go “wow, that grabs me. That´swhat I want to do”

PROGRAM

Please note that no specific preparation is required for any of the sessions. Should you wish,you are welcome to read or watch the material listed in advance but most learning follows fromdigging deeper into what really interests you after it has been discussed in class.

SESSION 1: SINGULARITY

We start by unpacking the word Singularity. It means different things to different people. Herewe will define it in the way that futurists, such as Ray Kurzweil, do to mean the point wheretechnologically-created cognitive capacity is reached and then goes beyond that possible forhumans. When this will happen and what the long term effect will be are not as interesting asthe convergence itself. This is already happening and causing revolutions in genetics,nanotechnology and robotics.

Articles

By 2029, computers will match human intelligence: Ray Kurzweilhttp://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-08-13/science/41372718_1_watson-computer-artificial-intelligence-200-million-pages

Google’s Chief Engineer: People Will Soon Upload Their Entire Brains To Computershttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35355.htm

A group of stem-cell biologists have grown an “organoid” that resembles a brainhttp://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21584319-group-stem-cell-biologists-have-grown-organoid-resembles-brain

Paul Allen: The Singularity Isn't Nearhttp://www.technologyreview.com/view/425733/paul-allen-the-singularity-isnt-near/

Is the singularity near, or is it already history?http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2012/08/is-the-singularity-near-or-has-its-time-already-passed.html

Merely Human? That’s So Yesterdayhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/business/13sing.html

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Why I Believe That This Will Be The Most Innovative Decade In Historyhttp://www.forbes.com/sites/singularity/2012/06/25/most-innovative-decade-in-history/

Singularity University: Meet The People Who Are Building Our Futurehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/29/singularity-university-technology-future-thinkers

Books

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biologyhttp://www.amazon.com/The-Singularity-Is-Near-Transcend/dp/0143037889

Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous Worldhttp://www.amazon.com/Singularity-Rising-Surviving-Thriving-Dangerous/dp/1936661659

Video

Transcendent Man (2009)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1117394/

The Singularity (2012)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2073120/

Singularity or Busthttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt2672100/

SECTION A – THEORY

SESSION 2: INNOVATION & SUSTAINIBILITY

Is the rate of innovation slowing or are scientists just measuring the wrong things? In this classwe will look specifically at three concepts: Disruptive Innovation, Frugal Innovation and OpenInnovation. How can they be used to see what is next?

Articles

Innovation: The History of a Buzzwordhttp://www.theatlantic.com/events/archive/2013/06/innovation-the-history-of-a-buzzword/277067/

Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects Youhttp://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/11/04/understanding-how-the-innovators-dilemma-affects-you/

Netflix Prize A “Turning Point” For Open Innovationhttp://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2009/09/23/netflix-prize-a-turning-point-for-open-innovation/

Asian innovation - Frugal ideas are spreading from East to Westhttp://www.economist.com/node/21551028

Disruptive Innovation for Social Changehttp://hbr.org/product/disruptive-innovation-for-social-change/an/R0612E-PDF-ENG

Can Silicon Valley Save the World? http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/06/24/can_silicon_valley_save_the_world

The Collapse of Complex Business Modelshttp://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex-business-models/

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Can business solve the world's biggest problems by disruptive change?http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/business-solve-worlds-problems-disruptive-change

Why Sustainability Is Now the Key Driver of Innovationhttp://hbr.org/2009/09/why-sustainability-is-now-the-key-driver-of-innovation/

Unilever’s global success is driven by innovation and sustainabilityhttps://letstalk.globalservices.bt.com/en/2013/08/unilevers-global-success-is-driven-by-innovation-and-sustainability/

Shareholder Value Theory, The Origin Of 'The World's Dumbest Ideahttp://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2013/06/26/the-origin-of-the-worlds-dumbest-idea-milton-friedman/

In today's corporations the buck never stops. Welcome to the age of irresponsibilityhttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/09/welcome-to-age-irresponsibility

Company profits depend on the 'welfare payments' they get from societyhttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/05/company-profits-welfare-payments-society

We must stop protecting the rich from market forceshttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/24/stop-protecting-rich-market-forces

The world’s next great leap forward - Towards the end of povertyhttp://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21578665-nearly-1-billion-people-have-been-taken-out-extreme-poverty-20-years-world-should-aim

Our dangerous illusion of tech progress by Garry Kasparov and Peter Thielhttp://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/8adeca00-2996-11e2-a5ca-00144feabdc0.html

Imprisoned by Innovationhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/opinion/sunday/morozov-imprisoned-by-innovation.html

Ha-Joon Chang: The net isn't as important as we thinkhttp://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/aug/29/my-bright-idea-ha-joon-chang

Lunch with the FT: Ha-Joon Changhttp://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/27a2027e-5698-11e3-8cca-00144feabdc0.html

Is U.S. Economic Growth Over? Faltering Innovation Confronts - The Six Headwindshttp://faculty-web.at.northwestern.edu/economics/gordon/Is_US_Economic_Growth_Over.pdf

Watch this man. Review of Civilisation by Niall Ferguson by Pankaj Mishrahttp://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n21/pankaj-mishra/watch-this-man

It’s a Myth That Entrepreneurs Drive New Technologyhttp://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2013/09/entrepreneurs_or_the_state_innovation_comes_from_public_investment.html

The entrepreneurial state - A new book points out the big role governments play in creating innovative businesseshttp://www.economist.com/news/business/21584307-new-book-points-out-big-role-governments-play-creating-innovative-businesses

Why innovation needs the help of an active state - FT.comhttp://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/738da524-08f2-11e3-8b32-00144feabdc0.html

Techno-Pessimists: Wrong In The 1930s, Wrong Todayhttp://auerswald.org/2013/01/13/techno-pessimists-wrong-in-the-1930s-wrong-today/

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Has the ideas machine broken down?http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21569381-idea-innovation-and-new-technology-have-stopped-driving-growth-getting-increasing

The west desperately needs more madcap schemes like the Hyperloophttp://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/31f366de-03f8-11e3-8aab-00144feab7de.html

Books

The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Businesshttp://www.amazon.com/The-Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Business/dp/0062060244

Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating And Profiting from Technologyhttp://www.amazon.com/Open-Innovation-Imperative-Profiting-Technology/dp/1422102831

Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profitshttp://www.amazon.com/Fortune-Bottom-Pyramid-Eradicating-Poverty/dp/8177587765

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Thingshttp://www.amazon.com/Cradle-Remaking-Way-Make-Things/dp/0865475873

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Timehttp://www.amazon.com/The-End-Poverty-Economic-Possibilities/dp/0143036580

To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionismhttp://www.amazon.com/Save-Everything-Click-Here-Technological/dp/1610391381

The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History,Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Betterhttp://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Stagnation-Low-Hanging-Eventually-ebook/dp/B004H0M8QS Civilization: The West and the Resthttp://www.amazon.com/Civilization-West-Rest-Niall-Ferguson/dp/0143122061

The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Diehttp://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Degeneration-Institutions-Economies/dp/1594205450

Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ageshttp://www.amazon.com/Technological-Revolutions-Financial-Capital-Dynamics/dp/1843763311

Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture CapitalHave Failed--and What to Do About Ithttp://www.amazon.com/Boulevard-Broken-Dreams-Entrepreneurship-Failed/dp/0691154538

23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Changhttp://www.amazon.com/Things-They-Dont-About-Capitalism/dp/1608193381/

Video

In Tech We Trust - A Debate With Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessenhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yztBoNQRYo

Mariana Mazzucato: Government -- investor, risk-taker, innovatorhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r1IPsldbBg

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SESSION 3: BIG DATA & THE INTERNET OF THINGS

These are two separate concepts, but looking at them together is good way of hypothesizingabout how our world might change. Big Data still has an imprecise meaning. It started as areference to the problem of when data sets grow so large that they become awkward to workwith. In time tools will get better and be able to extract meaning. I like to think of The Internet ofThings as a world where everything except food has an IP address. We will look at real worldexamples of machine to machine (M2M) conversations, social graphs and augmented realityproducts. Maybe we will emerge with more question than answers from this session but thehope is that one day it will all make sense.

Articles

The Origins of ‘Big Data’: An Etymological Detective Storyhttp://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/the-origins-of-big-data-an-etymological-detective-story/

Data, data everywhere - Information has gone from scarce to superabundant. That brings huge new benefits but also big headacheshttp://www.economist.com/node/15557443

14 Big Data Startups You're Going To Be Hearing A Lot More Abouthttp://www.businessinsider.com/14-big-data-startups-on-the-rise-2013-6

Is Data The New Oil?http://www.forbes.com/sites/perryrotella/2012/04/02/is-data-the-new-oil/

Big Data Is Not the New Oilhttp://blogs.hbr.org/2012/11/data-humans-and-the-new-oil/

What’s the difference between big data and business analytics?http://mathbabe.org/2013/08/16/whats-the-difference-between-big-data-and-business-analytics/

Clayton Christensen: Still disruptivehttp://www.economist.com/whichmba/clayton-christensen-still-disruptive

What Data Can’t Dohttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/opinion/brooks-what-data-cant-do.html

Stop Hyping Big Data and Start Paying Attention to ‘Long Data’http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/01/forget-big-data-think-long-data/

Beware the Big Errors of ‘Big Data’http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/02/big-data-means-big-errors-people/

The Age of Big Datahttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/sunday-review/big-datas-impact-in-the-world.html

Welcome to the Programmable Worldhttp://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/05/internet-of-things/

The Internet of Things and the future of manufacturinghttp://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/the_internet_of_things_and_the_future_of_manufacturing

One Trillion Sensors Embedded in Humans and Machines by 2020http://www.industrytap.com/the-hybird-age/3651

Need-to-know: A guide to the internet of thingshttp://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/daf3a2e8-bbc9-11e2-82df-00144feab7de.html

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Why I invested in SmartThingshttp://english.martinvarsavsky.net/investments/why-i-invested-in-smartthings.html

The internet of things - Mote learninghttp://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/05/internet-things

More Connected Homes, More Problemshttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/517931/more-connected-homes-more-problems/

FTC targets ‘internet of things’ amid privacy fearshttp://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/1eb3b2ca-15ac-11e3-b519-00144feabdc0.html

Spreadsheets: Broken link. Computing power, like political power, corruptshttp://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/3/3b2669de-118d-11e3-8321-00144feabdc0.html

CIA Chief Tech Officer: Big Data Is The Future And We Own Ithttp://www.businessinsider.com/cia-presentation-on-big-data-2013-3

2013: The year of the Internet of Thingshttp://www.technologyreview.com/view/509546/2013-the-year-of-the-internet-of-things/

The Internet of Things Has Arrived — And So Have Massive Security Issueshttp://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/01/securing-the-internet-of-things/

Books

Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Thinkhttp://www.amazon.com/Big-Data-Revolution-Transform-Think/dp/0544002695

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don'thttp://www.amazon.com/The-Signal-Noise-Many-Predictions/dp/159420411X

Video

"Why the Internet of Things is moving from industry to consumers sooner than you think"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LARDbFQOPU

SESSION 4: 3D PRINTING AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

Again in this session, we will connect two separate concepts and look at practical ways they arebringing change. 3D Printing companies are springing up all over the place. We know aboutprinting household objects but its at the Nanotech layer where things get really interesting.Nanotechnology manipulates matter at the near-atomic scale, already there are scientistsworking on how to “print” body parts.

Articles

Infographic: A Brief History of 3D Printinghttp://individual.troweprice.com/public/Retail/Planning-&-Research/Connections/3D-Printing/Infographic

3d Printed Aston Martin Db4 Replica By Ivan Sentchhttp://www.designboom.com/design/3d-printed-aston-martin-db4-replica-by-ivan-sentch/

Chris Anderson: Why I left Wired - 3D Printing Will Be Bigger Than The Webhttp://www.zdnet.com/chris-anderson-why-i-left-wired-3d-printing-will-be-bigger-than-the-web-7000007535/

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Why You Should Care About 3D Printinghttp://www.businessinsider.com/why-does-3d-printing-matter-2013-1

From dental braces to astronauts’ seatshttp://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21585005-signs-are-3d-printing-transforming-manufacturing-not-ways-you-might

3D printing scales up: There is a lot of hype around 3D printing. But it is fast becoming integrated with mainstream manufacturinghttp://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21584447-digital-manufacturing-there-lot-hype-around-3d-printing-it-fast

Amazon quietly launches complete 3D printing storehttp://www.techhive.com/article/2042076/amazon-quietly-launches-complete-3d-printing-store.html

Four ways 3d printing could change the worldhttp://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2012/11/30/technology/four-ways-3d-printing-could-change-world

The Next Trillion Dollar Industry: 3D Printinghttp://www.businessinsider.com/3d-printing-2011-2?op=1

3D printers shape up to lead the next technology gold rushhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/oct/05/3d-printers-technology-gold-rush

Nanotechnology's Revolutionary Next Phasehttp://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2013/02/26/nanotechnologys-civilization-changing-revolutionary-next-phase/

Nanotechnology researchers 3D print microbatteries for implants and tiny robotshttp://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30954.php

Graphene and Human Brain Project win largest research excellence award in historyhttp://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/graphene-and-human-brain-project-win-largest-research-excellence-award-history

Wonder Material Ignites Scientific Gold RushAtom-Thin Graphene Beats Steel, Silicon; A Patent "Land Rush"http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323664204578610092869213354

This 1,600-Year-Old Goblet Shows that the Romans Were Nanotechnology Pioneershttp://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this-1600-year-old-goblet-shows-that-the-romans-were-nanotechnology-pioneers-787224/

First 3D-Printed Rifle Successfully Fires 14 Shotshttp://mashable.com/2013/08/06/update-3d-printed-rifle/

Nanotechnology engineers can print 3D microstructures in mere secondshttp://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=26710.php

Books

Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilizationhttp://www.amazon.com/Radical-Abundance-Revolution-Nanotechnology-Civilization/dp/1610391136

Makers: The New Industrial Revolutionhttp://www.amazon.com/Makers-The-New-Industrial-Revolution/dp/0307720950

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SECTION B – CHALLENGES

SESSION 5: ENERGY & TELECOMS

Where do we currently get our energy and is this likely to continue? How big a change hasMobile brought to telecommunications. How is Energy and Telecommunications linked? Onevery interesting theory is called The Third Industrial Revolution. Climate change, anyone want todeny that its is man made? Finally can we kick our addiction to oil and is solar the answer?

Articles

Futurist Ray Kurzweil sees solar energy advancing at an exponential rate, soon reaching the tipping point towards universal use.http://www.psfk.com/2011/02/kurzweil-predicts-100-solar-power-in-20-years.html

Why BP Solar Failedhttp://www.technologyreview.com/view/426461/why-bp-solar-failed/

European utilities - How to lose half a trillion euroshttp://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21587782-europes-electricity-providers-face-existential-threat-how-lose-half-trillion-euros

Analysis: Renewables turn utilities into dinosaurs of the energy worldhttp://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/08/us-utilities-threat-idUSBRE92709E20130308

why the us power grids days are numberedhttp://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-08-22/homegrown-green-energy-is-making-power-utilities-irrelevant

Storage, Not Generation, is the Challenge to Renewable Energyhttp://www.forbes.com/sites/singularity/2012/07/20/storage-not-generation-is-the-challenge-to-renewable-energy/

Mobile is eating the world, autumn 2013 editionhttp://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2013/11/5/mobile-is-eating-the-world-autumn-2013-edition

Rethinking Mobile Firsthttp://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/12/rethinking-mobile-first.html

Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselveshttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/506466/given-tablets-but-no-teachers-ethiopian-children-teach-themselves/

Zuckerberg explains internet.org, Facebook's plan to get the world onlinehttp://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-08/27/mark-zuckerberg-internet-org

European Renewable Energy Council ranks UK 25th out of 27 states on progress towards 2020 green energy targethttp://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jul/01/uk-miss-european-renewable-energy-target

The Battle Over Climate Sciencehttp://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-06/battle-over-climate-change

Reuters' climate-change coverage 'fell by nearly 50% with sceptic as editor'http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jul/26/reuters-climate-change-scepticism-coverage

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People Don’t Fear Climate Change Enoughhttp://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-27/people-don-t-fear-climate-change-enough.html

Naomi Klein: 'Big green groups are more damaging than climate deniers'http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/10/naomi-klein-green-groups-climate-deniers

Denialists are dead wrong about the science. But they understand something the left still doesn’t get about the revolutionary meaning of climate change.http://www.thenation.com/article/164497/capitalism-vs-climate

Is There Really a Green Paradox? by Van der Ploeg and Withagen.http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1562463

The Renewable Energy Singularityhttp://chrisgammell.com/the-renewable-energy-singularity/

Oil Soars and Natural Gas Withers: But the Energy Singularity is Not Forthcominghttp://gregor.us/transition/oil-soars-and-natural-gas-withers-but-the-energy-singularity-is-not-forthcoming/

Books

The Green Paradox: A Supply-Side Approach to Global Warminghttp://www.amazon.com/The-Green-Paradox-Supply-Side-Approach/dp/0262016680

The Ringtone and the Drum: Travels in the World's Poorest Countriehttp://www.amazon.com/The-Ringtone-Drum-Travels-Countries/dp/1780995865

The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the Worldhttp://www.amazon.com/The-Third-Industrial-Revolution-Transforming/dp/0230341977

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happinesshttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Nudge-Improving-Decisions-Health-Happiness/dp/0141040017

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Powerhttp://www.amazon.com/The-Prize-Quest-Money-Power/dp/1439110123

SESSION 6: EDUCATION & LEARNING

How does the world currently learn and is this likely to continue? What is a MOOC and will theykill the MBA (no!!!). What is poverty´s link to education and who benefits from inequality. We willcompare Finland´s successful education model with what the demonstrators say they want inChile. I will try to keep control in the class while the Mexicans get into a fight over “la Maestra”.

Articles

Influential Pisa report says Britain's mid-table position is virtually unchanged from 2009 as attainment gap persistshttp://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/dec/03/uk-students-education-oecd-pisa-report

Khan Academy Update — It’s Hard To Imagine How Much Hotter This Tech Can Gethttp://singularityhub.com/2013/01/21/khan-academy-update-its-hard-to-imagine-how-much-hotter-this-tech-can-get/

How California’s Online Education Pilot Will End College As We Know Ithttp://techcrunch.com/2013/01/15/how-californias-new-online-education-pilot-will-end-college-as-we-know-it/

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Rethinking Education: Why Our Education System Is Ripe For Disruptionhttp://www.forbes.com/sites/naveenjain/2013/03/24/disrupting-education/

How Online Innovators Are Disrupting Educationhttp://blogs.hbr.org/2011/11/how-online-innovators-are-disr/

Beyond Retrofitting: Innovation in Higher Educationhttp://www.hudson.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=publication_details&id=9627

How Do We Transform Our Schools?http://educationnext.org/how-do-we-transform-our-schools/

If You Send Your Kid to Private School, You Are a Bad Personhttp://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/08/private_school_vs_public_school_only_bad_people_send_their_kids_to_private.html

An army of new online courses is scaring the wits out of traditional universities. But can they finda viable business model?http://www.economist.com/news/business/21582001-army-new-online-courses-scaring-wits-out-traditional-universities-can-they

Online courses are transforming higher education, creating new opportunities for the best and huge problems for the resthttp://www.economist.com/news/international/21568738-online-courses-are-transforming-higher-education-creating-new-opportunities-best

Hopes that the internet can improve teaching may at last be bearing fruithttp://www.economist.com/node/21529062

Disrupting educationhttp://pando.com/2013/07/29/disrupting-education/

For Obama’s New Term, Start Herehttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/24/opinion/kristof-for-obamas-new-term-start-here.html

Obituary- Hamilton Nakihttp://www.economist.com/node/4054912

The Dangers of Telling a Single Story: Computers for Kids and Bill Gateshttp://whiteafrican.com/2013/08/10/the-dangers-of-telling-a-single-story-computers-for-kids-and-bill-gates/

Theory of Spain’s political classhttp://elpais.com/elpais/2012/09/12/inenglish/1347449744_053124.html

A Visit To Absurdistan: What Happened to the Spain Where I Was Born?http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/return-to-absurdistan-a-spiegel-reporter-visits-crisis-plagued-spain-a-847513.html

Camila Vallejo Dowling..the face of the ‘Chilean Winter’ student protestshttp://projectriserevoltretweet.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/camila-vallejo-dowling-the-face-of-the-chilean-winter-student-protests/

Education in Chile, The fraught politics of the classroomDeadlock over who should pay for education, and who should profit from ithttp://www.economist.com/node/21534785

Finland's education ambassador spreads the wordhttp://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/jul/01/education-michael-gove-finland-gcse

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The Secret to Finland's Success With Schools, Moms, Kids—and Everythinghttp://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/the-secret-to-finlands-success-with-schools-moms-kids-and-everything/277699/

What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Successhttp://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-americans-keep-ignoring-about-finlands-school-success/250564/

Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior¿ http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748704111504576059713528698754

Tiger Moms Don't Raise Superior Kids, Says New Studyhttp://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2013/05/08/tiger-moms-dont-raise-superior-kids-says-new-study/

Books

Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learnshttp://www.amazon.com/Disrupting-Class-Expanded-Disruptive-Innovation/dp/0071749101

Video

Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY

Waiting for 'Superman' (2010)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1566648/

Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent educationhttp://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education.html

Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societieshttp://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html

Girl Rising (2013)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2444946/

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single storyhttp://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html

Martin Luther King Jr., "The Drum Major Instinct" Sermonhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBiFnDuCJIU

SESSION /: FOOD (AND WATER)

What does the planet eat and is this sustainable? What is the relationship between food andwater? How much water does it make to grow a kilo of beef? Smartfoods and dumbfoods. Whyare Doritos so dam tasty and how much salt, sugar and fat is in them? Nestle, Monsanto,Glencore and even Goldman Sachs, are their ethical questions to be answered? And is "Eatfood, not too much, mostly plants." really good advice?

Articles

Inside the geopolitics of a a hungry planethttp://www.foreignpolicy.com/the_food_issue

John Deere tractors are getting smarter all the timehttp://money.cnn.com/2013/08/29/leadership/deere-sam-allen.pr.fortune/

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Farm subsidies: A welfare program for agribusinesshttp://theweek.com/article/index/248078/farm-subsidies-a-welfare-program-for-agribusiness

EU agricultural overhaul puts onus on farmers to be greenhttp://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ef20a538-de68-11e2-b990-00144feab7de.html

The 9 billion-people questionhttp://www.economist.com/node/18200618

The end of cheap food http://www.economist.com/node/10252015

What costs the world $260 billion each year?http://blogs.worldbank.org/water/what-costs-the-world-260-billion-each-year

For want of a drinkhttp://www.economist.com/node/16136302

Giant water reserves found in desert dry region of Kenyahttp://www.news.com.au/world/giant-water-reserves-found-in-desertdry-region-of-kenya/story-fndir2ev-1226718081792

Segway creator unveils his next invention: a magic water purifierhttp://digitaljournal.com/article/252204

Why Profits, Entrepreneurship, And Social Good Are Not Incompatiblehttp://www.forbes.com/sites/singularity/2013/08/27/why-profits-and-social-good-are-not-incompatible/

Nestlé's Peter Brabeck: our attitude towards water needs to changehttp://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/nestle-peter-brabeck-attitude-water-change-stewardship

Nestlé introduces bottled water for “trendy, high-income” womenhttp://www.salon.com/2013/06/10/nestle_introduces_bottled_water_for_trendy_high_income_women/

Why wealthy tech entrepreneurs are pouring their money into waterhttp://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2013/may/29/tech-entrepreneurs-charity-water-ethiopia-huddle

How To Feed A Billion. And Why It Payshttp://www.tehelka.com/how-to-feed-a-billion-and-why-it-pays/

The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Foodhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html

Coca-Cola admits Dasani is really just 'purified' tap waterhttp://www.naturalnews.com/038840_dasani_tap_water_purified.html

Halve meat consumption, scientists urge rich worldhttp://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/feb/18/halve-meat-consumption-scientists

Venture Capitalists Are Making Bigger Bets on Food Start-Upshttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/29/business/venture-capitalists-are-making-bigger-bets-on-food-start-ups.html

Fake food: the tech companies working to revolutionise how we eat proteinhttp://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/fake-food-tech-revolutionise-protein

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The Food Issue | Scientific American Reportshttp://mura.sciam.com/editorial/food/

Feeding Frenzy: The New Politics of Food http://www.amazon.com/Feeding-Frenzy-The-Politics-Food/dp/1781250340

Global threat to food supply as water wells dry up, warns top environment experthttp://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/jul/06/food-supply-threat-water-wells-dry-up

How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisishttp://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/27/how_goldman_sachs_created_the_food_crisis

Investigation A Giant Among Giants Glencore - Foreign Policyhttp://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/04/23/a_giant_among_giants'Seed freedom is the answer to hunger and malnutrition'http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/seed-freedom-hunger-malnutrition-biodiversity

What is causing food prices to soar and what can be done about it?http://www.economist.com/node/18229412

Golden Rice: Lifesaver?http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/sunday-review/golden-rice-lifesaver.html

Are high food prices good or bad for poverty?http://rodrik.typepad.com/dani_rodriks_weblog/2010/11/are-high-food-prices-good-or-bad-for-poverty.html

The Agricultural Fulcrum: Better Food, Better Climatehttp://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/the-agricultural-fulcrum-better-food-better-climate/267298/

Books

Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Waterhttp://www.amazon.com/Bottled-Sold-Story-Behind-Obsession/dp/1610911628

The Unhealthy Truth: One Mother's Shocking Investigation into the Dangers of America's Food Supply-- and What Every Family Can Do to Protect Itself http://www.amazon.com/The-Unhealthy-Truth-Shocking-Investigation/dp/0767930746

The World According to Monsantohttp://www.amazon.com/World-According-Monsanto-Marie-Monique-Robin/dp/1595587098

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Mealshttp://www.amazon.com/The-Omnivores-Dilemma-Natural-History/dp/1594132054

Video

Global Food Economicshttp://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/2013/02/16/punk-economics-global-food-economics

Food, Inc. (2008)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537King Corn (2007)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1112115/

More Than Honey (2012)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2263058/

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Natural World: Farm for the Futurehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixx1c3RSw_8

Dambisa Moyo: Is China the new idol for emerging economies?http://www.ted.com/talks/dambisa_moyo_is_china_the_new_idol_for_emerging_economies.html

Bottled Life: Nestle's Business with Water http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2072910/

Tapped (I) (2009)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1344784/

Blue Gold: World Water Wars (2008)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1137439/

SESSION 8: HEALTH (& AID)

In this session first we look at the statistics, who lives longest and who dies quickly. Next, we look at aid to the developing world. Who is benefiting and who getting a raw deal. The increase is the rates of cancer, the so called silent killer, is one of the most troubling phenomena of recent years. How near are we to a cure? Big Pharma. Some say more sinned again than sinning. Others that the industry has lost its way. Finally we will discuss how long do you want tolive for anyway? Does the phrase quality of life resonate with you?

Articles

Why Do Education and Health Care Cost So Much?http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-26/why-do-education-and-health-care-cost-so-much-.html

Will Disruptive Innovations Cure Health Care?http://hbr.org/web/extras/insight-center/health-care/will-disruptive-innovations-cure-health-care

Medicine goes digitalhttp://www.economist.com/node/13437990

One Man's Quest To Make Medical Technology Affordable To Allhttp://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/07/03/198065436/one-mans-quest-to-make-health-care-accessible-and-affordable

How Silicon Valley Envisions The Future Of Health Carehttp://www.fastcoexist.com/1681369/how-silicon-valley-envisions-the-future-of-healthcare

Singularity University Graduates 2013 Class: Startups Emerge To Solve Major Health Problemshttp://singularityhub.com/2013/08/29/singularity-university-graduates-2013-class-startups-emerge-to-solve-major-health-problems/

Five Predictions For Biotech And Medicine In 2012http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2011/12/29/five-predictions-for-biotech-and-medicine-in-2012/

Bill Gates: capitalism means male baldness research gets more funding than malariahttp://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-03/14/bill-gates-capitalism

The Charitable-Industrial Complexhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/opinion/the-charitable-industrial-complex.html

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The Global Elite’s Favorite Strongmanhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/magazine/paul-kagame-rwanda.html

Half of UK population 'will get cancer in lifetime'http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22796220

Do Sharks Hold Secret to Human Cancer Fight?http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/08/0820_030820_sharkcancer.html

The 10 Deadliest Cancers and Why There's No Curehttp://www.livescience.com/11041-10-deadliest-cancers-cure.html

Drug firms and cancer: Lucrative lifesavershttp://www.economist.com/news/business/21584333-hopes-and-perils-betting-cancer-treatments-lucrative-lifesavers

WTF Is Calico, And Why Does Google Think Its Mysterious New Company Can Defy Aging?http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/19/wtf-is-calico-and-why-does-google-think-its-mysterious-new-company-can-defy-aging/

Rebuilding Big Pharma's business modelhttp://www.bain.com/publications/articles/rebuilding-big-pharmas-business-model.aspx

Why is it so difficult to develop drugs for cancer?http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/05/17/100517fa_fact_gladwell

Why Malcolm Gladwell Is Wronghttp://www.forbes.com/sites/sciencebiz/2010/05/12/why-malcolm-gladwell-is-wrong/

Drugmakers: Big Pharma struggles to protect its blockbusters as they lose patent protectionhttp://www.economist.com/node/21541018

Drugs and emerging markets. For developing countries to get new drugs, both Big Pharma and governments must compromisehttp://www.economist.com/node/21562204

Trade Deals For Cheap Drugs In Developing Nations Stalled By U.S.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/29/trade-deals-cheap-drugs-us_n_1554314.html

Drug patents - A fool’s gamehttp://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2013/04/drug-patents

Profitless prosperity - The biotechnology industry needs to grow uphttp://www.economist.com/node/6838715

Frequently Asked Questions About Pharmacogenomicshttps://www.genome.gov/27530645

Pharmacogenomics holds the promise that drugs might one day be tailored to your genetic makeup.http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/personalized-medicine/CA00078

Esther Dyson: We Need to Fix Health Behaviorhttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/518901/esther-dyson-we-need-to-fix-health-behavior/

Daniel Kraft on Singularity 1 on 1: You Don’t Have To Be a Doctor to Improve Health Carehttp://www.singularityweblog.com/daniel-kraft-on-singularity-1-on-1-you-dont-have-to-be-a-doctor-to-improve-health-care/

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Books

The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Carehttp://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Prescription-Disruptive-Solution-Health/dp/0071592083/

Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africahttp://www.amazon.com/Dead-Aid-Working-Better-Africa/dp/0374532125

Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patientshttp://www.amazon.com/Bad-Pharma-Companies-Mislead-Patients/dp/0865478007

Video

Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare (2012)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2093109/

Clay Shirky Keynote - Health 2.0 SF 2008http://vimeo.com/5670673

SECTION C – WHAT´S NEXT?

SESSION 9: CAREERS

The wrap up session will review what we have looked at and identify ways to work in this new economy. What skills will you need to have and what skills will be redundant. Will robots be our new overlords?

Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the younghttp://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-schmich-sunscreen-column,0,4054576.column

Report Suggests Nearly Half of U.S. Jobs Are Vulnerable to Computerizationhttp://www.technologyreview.com/view/519241/report-suggests-nearly-half-of-us-jobs-are-vulnerable-to-computerization/

Where Google Ventures Is Searching Now http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443854204578058540650115104.html

The Future of Workhttp://blogs.wsj.com/atwork/2012/12/18/how-to-treat-workplace-stress/?mod=e2tw

The End of Labor: How to Protect Workers From the Rise of Robotshttp://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/01/the-end-of-labor-how-to-protect-workers-from-the-rise-of-robots/267135/

Top five regrets of the dyinghttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/01/top-five-regrets-of-the-dying

The strategy consultants in search of a strategyhttp://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/f15acee6-0f2d-11e3-8e58-00144feabdc0.html

What Killed Michael Porter's Monitor Group? The One Force That Really Mattershttp://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2012/11/20/what-killed-michael-porters-monitor-group-the-one-force-that-really-matters/

Consulting on the Cusp of Disruptionhttp://hbr.org/2013/10/consulting-on-the-cusp-of-disruption/

Hazard of the Trade: Bankers' Health

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http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970204062704577223623824944472

Vivek Wadhwa: Why I Don’t Advise Startups to Hire M.B.A.shttp://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2013/04/01/vivek-wadhwa-why-i-no-longer-advise-startups-to-hire-m-b-a-s/

Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everythinghttp://hbr.org/2013/05/why-the-lean-start-up-changes-everything

Forget The Sequester: Entrepreneurs Are Saving The Futurehttp://www.forbes.com/sites/singularity/2013/03/05/forget-the-sequester-entrepreneurs-are-saving-the-future/

How to get a job after the Singularity comeshttp://www.cringely.com/2011/10/30/how-to-get-a-job-after-the-singularity-comes/

Books

How Will You Measure Your Life?http://www.amazon.com/How-Will-Measure-Your-Life/dp/0062102419

The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Careerhttp://www.amazon.com/The-Start-up-You-Yourself-Transform-ebook/dp/B0050DIWHU

The Empty Raincoat: Making Sense of the Future by Charles Handyhttp://books.google.es/books/about/The_Empty_Raincoat.html?id=sYQiAQAAMAAJ

Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harfordhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Adapt-Success-Always-Starts-Failure/dp/0349121516

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Societies-Choose-Succeed-Revised/dp/0143117009/

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies http://www.amazon.com/Guns-Germs-Steel-Fates-Societies/dp/0393317552

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Povertyhttp://www.amazon.com/Why-Nations-Fail-Origins-Prosperity/dp/0307719219

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor http://www.amazon.com/The-Wealth-Poverty-Nations-Some/dp/0393318885

The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy (2102)by Philip Auerswaldhttp://www.amazon.com/Coming-Prosperity-Entrepreneurs-Transforming-Economy/dp/0199795177

The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Googlehttp://www.amazon.com/The-Big-Switch-Rewiring-Edison/dp/039334522X

The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharinghttp://www.amazon.com/Mesh-Why-Future-Business-Sharing/dp/1591844304

Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think by Peter Diamandishttp://www.amazon.com/Abundance-Future-Better-Than-Think/dp/1451614217

Video

Andrew McAfee: What will future jobs look like?http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_mcafee_what_will_future_jobs_look_like.html

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Hans Rosling: The best stats you've ever seenhttp://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html

Surviving Progress (2011)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1462014/

Objectified (2009)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1241325/

The Sharing Economy by Loic Le Meurhttp://www.slideshare.net/loiclemeur/sharing-economyforslideshare-20131145

Mark Suster - GRP Partners - LeWeb London 2013http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pg9BNfguv8

SECTION D – IN CLASS EVALUATION

SESSION 10: EXAM

Students are asked to bring their PCs to the session and log into the network. 15 Minutes beforethe start of class, each student will be sent an email from their hypothetical “boss” with five generic questions based on what we have studied. Pick one question and reply to it. You may consult any source you like but must reply to the email within 90 minutes. After I read each email, I will reply to it with the grade and my feedback. This exam will constitute 40 per cent of the overall grade for the course.

50% of the grade will come from explaining how to tackle one of Humanity´s Great Problems in the style of a 1,000 word newspaper column. The idea is to be original and contrarian. The crazier the better. You can submit this at an anytime during the course.

Finally, 10% is based of class participation. This is mostly awarded for just showing up though interesting questions which benefit the class should and will be rewarded.

50% Paper – A 1,000 word newspaper article40% Final Exam - Answer an in class email10% Class Participation

- ENDS

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