Who is inventing the future in 2013?
Kragen Javier Sitaker, 2013-05-17
(1 minute)
Alan Kay, whose team invented object-oriented programming and the
modern graphical user interface, famously said, "The best way to
predict the future is to invent it." If that's true, then the people
who control the future are the ones who are inventing it. So let's
invent a future we want to live in!
Who are the people and projects inventing a future worth living in
today?
- Yochai Benkler, inventing the economics of the post-scarcity world.
- Michel Bauwens, also, with his Peer-To-Peer Foundation.
- Marcin Jakubowski, and his Factor e Farm/Open Source Ecology/Global
Village Construction Set project. See
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Marcin_Log for what he's doing
today.
- Nick Mathewson and the rest of the Tor project, trying to enable
anonymous speech in the age of the internet.
- Kickstarter.
- Wikipedia, which has organized the world's knowledge and made it
universally accessible and useful, completing the project of
Diderot's Encyclopédie a few hundred years late. Jimmy Wales is its
most visible spokesperson, but the vast majority of work is being
done by thousands, if not tens of thousands, of volunteers.
- The Internet Archive.