The University (2016)

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On a NASA research base in Silicon Valley, there's an organization that's changing the world ... Singularity University (SU). Created by renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil and entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, with support from NASA, Google, and others, the university brings in some of the smartest students from around the world, and gives them a crash course in the most powerful exponential technologies on the planet. The students are then given a challenge: create companies that will impact a billion people within ten years. The film follows the students and their companies over five years, as they use the support of scientists, astronauts and billionaires in their attempt to make a dent in the universe.

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Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking as Self - Interviewee Died 2018 · Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK Stephen William Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA (January 8, 1942 – March 14, 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author, and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology w...
Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin as Self - Interviewee Age 96 · Glen Ridge, New Jersey, USA Buzz Aldrin (/ˈɔːldrɪn/; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission. H...
Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil as Self - Interviewee Age 78 · Queens, New York, United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Raymond "Ray" Kurzweil (born February 12, 1948) is an American author, inventor and futurist. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OC...
Michio Kaku
Michio Kaku as Self - Interviewee Age 79 · San Jose, California, USA Michio Kaku is an American physicist, science communicator, futurologist, and writer of popular-science. He is a professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate...
Ashton Kutcher
Ashton Kutcher as Self - Interviewee Age 48 · Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA Christopher Ashton Kutcher (born February 7, 1978) is an American actor, model, producer, and entrepreneur. He began his acting career portraying Michael Kelso in the Fox sitcom That '70s Show (1998–2...
will.i.am
will.i.am as Self - Interviewee Age 51 · Los Angeles, California, USA William James Adams Jr., (born March 15, 1975), better known by his stage name will.i.am (will-i-am) and occasionally by his other stage name Zuper Blahq, is an American rapper, musician, songwriter,...