Brewster Kahle

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1960 age 0

   Born

2. 2010 age 50

   CreditTruth in Numbers? Everything, According to Wikipedia

• RBRichard Branson1 title
• SGScott Glosserman1 title
• NHNic Hill1 title
• NCNoam Chomsky1 title
• HZHoward Zinn1 title
• RKRaymond Kurzweil1 title
• VCVint Cerf1 title
• JWJimmy Wales1 title
• LLLawrence Lessig1 title
• DTDon Tapscott1 title

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• The United States, as you point out, has been actually freer than most in terms of offering access to information. It doesn't have to be this way. Openness is not the default in terms of how if you look back in time, or even around the world. We need to show how openness works better. That you end up with companies that thrive better. That you have, with standards, you have more competition that builds more jobs. That openness is a win.

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• Here's the problem with the web — this is so cool, it's worth it. The internet is decentralized in the sense that you can kind of nuke any part of it and it still works. That was its original design. The World Wide Web isn't that way. You go and knock out any particular piece of hardware, it goes away. Can we make a reliable web that's served from many different places, kind of like how the Amazon cloud works, but for everybody? The answer is yes, you can. You can make kind of a pure to pure distribution structure, such that the web becomes reliable. Another is that we can make it private so that there's reader privacy. Edward Snowden has brought to light some really difficult architectural problems of the current World Wide Web. The GCHQ, the secret service of the British, watched everybody using WikiLeaks, and then offered all of those IP addresses, which are personally identifiable in the large part, to the NSA. The NSA had conversations about using that as a means to go and... moni

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• If they succeed in destroying our books or even making many of them inaccessible, there will be a chilling effect on the hundreds of other libraries that lend digitized books as we do. This could be the burning of the Library of Alexandria moment—millions of books from our community's libraries—gone.

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• He [Kahle] noted that libraries historically tend to grow in societies that prioritize education and decline in societies where power is being concentrated, and he’s worried about where the US is headed. That makes it hard to predict if IA—or any library project—will be supported in the long term.

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