Aisha Ali Al Ali
Dr. Carbonell
ENG 111
Date:
The Singularity University
This essay will discuss Carole Cadwalladr’s “Singularity University: meet the people who are building our future” which it’s about the Singularity University. In her article Cadwalladr claims that people who are at this university will build humanity’s future. She believes that they will get rid of world problems such as poverty, hunger, and dryness. This University involve people from all around the world trying to solve different problems. However, Cadwalladr is incorrect for several reasons such as the way they use to solve these problems, and their aims to depend on artificial intelligence method for the best future later is totally false.
The Singularity University will educate a Generation that will change the future basically in a way That will benefit humanity later. However, these thoughts are incorrect. In this article Cadwalladr gives a background about the Singularity University and how the first day ran there. Many celebrities were involved the university and the most famous one is Buzz Aldrin the astronaut. Those people made many things that made them special on top of each other. Cadwalladr also talked about the courses in the university and what makes this university better than the other universities.
Cadwalladr sat on the Food table were supposed to be people who should find a solution for the world hunger "What about artificial meat?" Suggests Mike Federle,"We could make a steak right now," says Robert Hariri, "But it'll cost you $20,000." (Cadwalladr.24). Those are the comments when they started to share Ideas. One of those scientists thought about the artificial meat as a new source of food to solve the hunger prob...
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...hey are a junk of metal and they don’t have sensation nerves that will make them stronger and destroyers. They are intelligent enough so they can rebuild themselves again its will turn to be a war between humanity and robotics. It is hilarious when you think of a unwanted items of metal will conquer the world later.
To conclude, this article is important because it discusses the Singularity University features, aims, and how the studies run there. And it talks about how this generation who will graduate from this university will create our future later. However, even though Cadwalladr is proud of having a university like the Singularity University. Cadwalladr, and Peter Diamandis, and the other futurist should think of the reasons of why there is a problems in this world not by creating an artificial intelligence that will get rid of these problems.
Lundberg describes how the demand for animal protein was incredibly higher than the production. She quoted Marlow’s article stating, “A nonvegetarian diet requires 2.9 times more water, 2.5 times more energy, 13 times more fertilizer, and 1.4 times more pesticide than does a vegetarian diet and the greatest difference comes from beef consumption” (Lundberg 483). She then questions: "Do we really want to wait until it’s too late to change our way of eating?” (Lundberg 485). These two points will make readers subconsciously pause to answer this question themselves, put themselves in the situation imagining the products used and having an immediate reaction to it.
Every one is scavenging for the next big gadget- the future is a standard that society strives to have in their grasp. However, Joel Achenbach a former humor columnist solves the mystery of the future in his article, “The Future is Now: it’s heading right at us, but we never see it coming” .he presents a sense of urgency describing that the future is not something that society needs to wait for it happens behind closed doors. He argues that the future is a fast pace entity that occurs all around us. Achenbach proves this point by sticking to his humorous style, with the use of witty allusions to Sci-Fi films.
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