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Custom School Short Video Description and Short Video by Kid having done it

Posted on November 13, 2015 by Brewster Kahle

    And, for more good news, Logan got into Cornell a year earlier than his years would suggest, and he is doing well there.   So custom schooling has been working well.

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Divertissement for Warming Orchestra #D4

Posted on September 26, 2015 by Brewster Kahle

Having just gone to the symphony tonight, I would like to propose a new piece of music, called Divertissement for Warming Orchestra. Here is the “score”: It is a form of call-and-response.  When the orchestra is warming up, any player … Continue reading →

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Locking the Web Open: A Call for a Decentralized Web

Posted on August 11, 2015 by jeff kaplan

(Short form article, Short lecture, Long lecture, demo of a fraction of the idea of a distributed website (or paste this link in maelstrom)) Over the last 25 years, millions of people have poured creativity and knowledge into the World … Continue reading →

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Locking the Web Open, a Call for a Distributed Web

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Brewster Kahle

Presentation by Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive Digital Librarian at Ford Foundation NetGain gathering, — a call from 5 top foundations to think big about prospects for our digital future. (via archive.org ) Hi, I’m Brewster Kahle, Founder of the Internet … Continue reading →

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When I First Realized I was being Lied to…

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Brewster Kahle

When I first realized I was being lied to, systematically lied to, and by the government, I felt upset, then felt duped, and it started me thinking– how far does this lying go? It was in the beginning of college … Continue reading →

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Tower of Babel Story Celebrating Monoculture or Diversity?

Posted on February 15, 2015 by Brewster Kahle

I started to question what I was taught about the Tower of Babel story, and it turns out I was not the only one.   Oxford Biblical Studies Online analyzes it and comes up a non-traditional and, from my point of … Continue reading →

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Are ‘Road-Trains’ Coming?

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Brewster Kahle

I think it could be a very good thing, and one that could evolve incrementally from existing technologies. I imagine ‘Road-Trains’ as made up of cars on highways that automatically adapt to what cars in front of it are doing, … Continue reading →

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“Change the World”, “Do No Evil”, what about something else– “Amplify Good” or ?

Posted on October 19, 2014 by Brewster Kahle

Maybe we should question mottoes and think of new ones. Steve Jobs would often say he was “Changing the World.”   Google’s founders repeated a motto of “Do No Evil.”   Mottos may seem trite, but they form part of the … Continue reading →

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Creating Free and Open Societies

Posted on May 13, 2014 by Brewster Kahle

  Creating Free and Open Societies From Free and Open Source Software, to Non-profit High-tech Organizations, to Debt-free Affordable Housing  Brewster Kahle,  the club,  May 12, 2014,   cc-by    v3 msword pdf tl;dr summary:  Public Licenses Rule (in software and … Continue reading →

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Corporations are 1st Generation AI’s

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Brewster Kahle

Corporations are 1st generation AI’s Just as computers started out being made out of people, AI’s are starting out being made of humans humans to operate their processes, to be the actors of the Corporations But fewer humans are needed … Continue reading →

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