SALT - Seminars About Long Term Thinking
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The subscription URL is http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/SALT.xml . The Seminars About Long-term Thinking is a monthly speaking series produced by The Long Now Foundation and hosted by Stewart Brand. The series looks from many angles and backgrounds at the subject of long term thinking and responsibility. Examples of speakers in the series range from musician Brian Eno, author Bruce Sterling, anthropologist Jared Diamond, technologist Ray Kurzweil, geneticist Craig Venter, and game creator Will Wright. This series is supported by Long Now members who also get hi resolution video of the series and invites to special events. You can become a member at: http://members.longnow.org . This podcast is brought to you in partnership with FORA.tv. Visit the Long Now Foundation channel at http://fora.tv/partner/long_now_foundation for videos of many of these events.
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Iqbal Quadir: Technology Empowers the Poorest
from SALT - Seminars About Long Term Thinking on May 21, 2008
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Quadir is the now-legendary founder of GrameenPhone, which transformed his home country of Bangladesh in the 1990s and led the way for the cellphone revolution throughout the developing world. Currently Quadir heads the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT and is building Emergence BioEnergy Inc., a project to develop local electricity for the rural poor, using such devices as a fuel cell that runs on anaerobic bacteria. Linking new technology with the boundless resourcefulness of the poor drives innovation in surprising directions at surprising speed.
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Iqbal Quadir: Technology Empowers the Poorest
from SALT - Seminars About Long Term Thinking on May 21, 2008
42 views / likes
Quadir is the now-legendary founder of GrameenPhone, which transformed his home country of Bangladesh in the 1990s and led the way for the cellphone revolution throughout the developing world. Currently Quadir heads the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT and is building Emergence BioEnergy Inc., a project to develop local electricity for the rural poor, using such devices as a fuel cell that runs on anaerobic bacteria. Linking new technology with the boundless resourcefulness of the poor drives innovation in surprising directions at surprising speed.
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