From coding for the homeless to wireless for the world, there are limits to Silicon Valley's plans to heal the globe
What a powerful thing the Internet is. Consider: you — yes, you, whoever and wherever you are—are reading words that I’ve typed. They came to you instantly and for free, and you can dispose of them just as easily as you found them. The Internet is great.
Take this week’s Internet star: young software engineer and entrepreneur Patrick McConlogue, who announced his grand mission to end homelessness through the Internet, one man at a time.
McConlogue described his plan on Medium in two parts. In the first post, McConlogue explained that he would offer a choice to the “unjustly homeless” man he passed daily. “Without disrespecting him,” McConlogue would give the man either $100 in cash, or supplies and tutoring so that he might learn how to code for the web.
Mark Zuckerberg thinks the Internet is great, too. He thinks it’s so great, and so powerful, that this week he announced a long-term initiative to bring Internet access to the five billion people in the world who lack it. He has several leading partners from the tech industry, including Samsung, Nokia, and Qualcomm. Google isn’t Zuckerberg’s partner, but it has its own similar initiative. Project Loon, which calls for balloons to supply wireless Internet to not-yet-wired places, recently began a pilot program in New Zealand. Full story...
Related posts:
What a powerful thing the Internet is. Consider: you — yes, you, whoever and wherever you are—are reading words that I’ve typed. They came to you instantly and for free, and you can dispose of them just as easily as you found them. The Internet is great.
Take this week’s Internet star: young software engineer and entrepreneur Patrick McConlogue, who announced his grand mission to end homelessness through the Internet, one man at a time.
McConlogue described his plan on Medium in two parts. In the first post, McConlogue explained that he would offer a choice to the “unjustly homeless” man he passed daily. “Without disrespecting him,” McConlogue would give the man either $100 in cash, or supplies and tutoring so that he might learn how to code for the web.
Mark Zuckerberg thinks the Internet is great, too. He thinks it’s so great, and so powerful, that this week he announced a long-term initiative to bring Internet access to the five billion people in the world who lack it. He has several leading partners from the tech industry, including Samsung, Nokia, and Qualcomm. Google isn’t Zuckerberg’s partner, but it has its own similar initiative. Project Loon, which calls for balloons to supply wireless Internet to not-yet-wired places, recently began a pilot program in New Zealand. Full story...
Related posts:
- Facebook's Zuckerberg runs a giant spy machine in Palo Alto, California...
- German government warns key entities not to use Windows 8 – links the NSA...
- New Zealand court rules that employee must allow her bosses to examine her Facebook...
- Apple Inc. patents technology to aid the fascist police state...
- How everything you do online is tracked and stored...
- Africa's Big Brother lives in Beijing...
No comments:
Post a Comment