This might be worth investigating. Ray Kurzweil ([email protected]) is not a technical arsehole. His specialty is AI but he is jacked-up on all matters technical.
Earlier this year, Peter Diamandis and I [Kurzweil] organized a really amazing institution called Singularity University (SU) headquartered at NASA Ames in Mountain View, CA in the heart of Silicon Valley. SU was established with the support of Google, ePlanet Ventures, Autodesk and a dozen Associate Founders. SU runs a graduate/post-graduate program every summer. We also run an incredible 9-day “Executive Program” (EP). The program concentrates on six exponential growing technologies: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Nanotechnology, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Medicine and Human-Machine Interfaces, Networks & Computing Systems, and Energy & Environmental Systems. Attending the program gives you an understanding of how these accelerating technologies will transform your business and your industry by showing you what is in the lab today and where the technologies will be in 5 and 10 years. A detailed description of the program including video testimonials from past participants is available here: http://singularityu.org/ep