
Video introduction for Open Space, a student project/start-up of the Singularity University class of 2011. This video isn't meant to be used for commercial purposes, it was just a fun student project, so all photos were found using Google searches. If you see a photo that belongs to you - please don't sue me! Contact me through my YouTube account and I'm happy to replace it. Opening excerpt taken from Sagan's TV show, Cosmos. The rest of the script, the video editing, the production, and the voiceover were composed by project member Lilia. The video is inspired by YouTuber damewse, who made his beautiful, inspiring video (www.youtube.com to gently nudge NASA into bringing their PR into the 21st century. Thank you, damewse! Now, we're taking it a step further at Singularity University, a program run jointly by Google and NASA. The program's deliverables consist of creating start-ups - many of which are eventually incorporated - that will positively affect the lives of a billion people in 10 years. Open Space is an effort to bring the field of space exploration as a WHOLE into the 21st century by crowdsourcing engineering, planning, and other colonization-related projects. Users around the globe will have access to a virtual reality platform in which they can work together to break down challenges like figuring out what cultural elements to bring, or creating a more efficient propulsion system into bite-sized enough pieces that literally anyone can join in the effort. The <b>...</b>
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