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.
Cinematography
Glossy NASA facility shots that make failure look aspirational.
Production
Access to actual space billionaires and their pet projects.
Director
Matt Rutherford
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Matt Rutherford was a Singularity University student himself—so this is basically a grad school project about grad school.
Released in 2016, the film captures peak techno-libertarianism just before the 2016 election made 'disrupt everything' feel less cute.
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