As I describe in my new book, Start at the End: How Companies Can Grow Bigger and Faster by Reversing Their Business Plan, the key difference between average and super-successful entrepreneurs is that the latter continues to think about the end.

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Proponents of the singularity typically state that an intelligence explosion is a key factor of the Singularity where super-intelligences design successive generations of increasingly powerful minds.

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While this technology still has a long way to go, challenges such as NASA's October 21 First Annual Space Elevator Competition at the Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley are spurring design teams to push the limits of both their robots and the super-strong, carbon nanotube-based ribbons that are key to supporting them.

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