This week, Bobbie Johnson visits a new academic institution that has an ambitious goal - to change the world. The Singularity University was launched this year at the TED conference in California by the futurist Ray Kurzweil, and it is dedicated to teaching cutting-edge technologies and future studies.
The campus is in Mountain View, California, and we meet the executive director of the university, Salim Ismail. Ismail discusses the skills that are needed to manage the future and, therefore, the skills that future politicians and policymakers will need.
Bobbie also speaks to a few of the 40 students that have paid $25,000 to study at Singularity U to hear about their experiences, and finds out from one that she is nonchalant about now working on projects that would affect only one billion people.
There's also this week's news - with details of eBay selling a stake in Skype, Facebook tightening its privacy rules, a new call for tax breaks for the games industry, and an apology from Microsoft after its Polish arm digitally altered an image of a black man to make him white in a promotional image.
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