Author Archives: Brewster Kahle

First, understanding comes from place and environment: Each Sumerian city had a god…  the Greeks, more or less the same. Then, Understanding came from “the word”.    Hebrews had their Torah that had the advantage of being portable and could be … Continue reading →

Thanks to Edward Snowden, we now have a new dinner party Non-Disclosure-Agreement.    Just turn off your cell phones and put then put in the refrigerator.  🙂 more more

Proud father moment to see Caslon graduate confident and happy from Urban High School and ready to got to Oberlin College in the fall.

What about establishing a Foundation Farming School, say near San Francisco in Richmond or El Cerrito?    A motto might be “Learn to Grow.”   This school could have the farmers live on the property and teach each other and explore new … Continue reading →

Pete Leyden has a new format mini-conference using Google Hangout: the reinventor series.   Last week he invited me to talk about Foundation Housing and had serious housing experts critique it and explain some of their ideas for affordable housing. (I … Continue reading →

Today I had a fabulous sushi lunch with Ted Nelson, my son Logan, and paid 0.35BTC!  This is such fun.   A first for me.       Today about 1/3 of the headquarter’s staff got paid partially in Bitcoins today … Continue reading →

I have been playing around with Bitcoin, the mathematically very cool digital currency.     It occurred to me that it is the “local currency” of the Internet.   There are local currencies like Ithaca Hours or Bernal Bucks that facilitate trading within … Continue reading →

A friend mentioned an organization in Marin County: Community Land Trust Association of West Marin that was set up to buy or get bequests of housing and use it for those that work in the area.  The problem is that … Continue reading →