Birth: 1976
If you create networks that allow people in their own local systems to have power and agency and sovereignty in their own systems. The idea that peop….
Google and Facebook extend internet access across the world, but the access is generally speaking to an internet that is focused on the advertisers t….
When I was in graduate school at MIT I was trying to think about how to develop software and systems for farmers and villagers in India. In the proce….
This is what engineers in Silicon Valley typically do. "Ok, well, of course there are some problems of our technology because it is so excellent and ….
I think the governments need to encourage internet companies and convince them that they can be extremely profitable without necessarily spiraling ou….
We are getting close to the point where as every platform of tech that has any level of scale gets bought by either Google or Facebook or sometimes M….
Technology is nothing but an expression of human values. It's not neutral, it's not about efficiency, it's about people's values and their knowledge..
You could kind of be free and expressive but you already knew when you joined the internet, you knew that you should not be a troll. You began to exp….
The point I'm trying to make is if these networks of communication technologies are owned, monetized, surveilled, and classified by those with power ….
I am a former engineer and I was really excited about the possibility of building better technology to serve humanity. A lot of us as engineers have ….
In its early days the Internet seem to be a counter cultural space and an anti corporate space, now is the place for corporate economic production. W….
The Silicon Valley companies are not understating that they are so politically and socially and culturally central in the world. They would probably ….
We are at a moment that some of the Silicon Valley companies are feeling the pressure. These days the founder of Twitter apologized that his company ….
If you share information widely, but you present that information in ways that fits your own view, you're actually still misrepresenting. So instead ….
Fake news is a product of the internet that is not transparent. Fake news can spread online because as users we have no idea where any of the content….
Marshall McLuhan prediction was some kind of electronic communication technology would emerge to instantaneously connect the world so much so that th….
I'm really interested not just in privacy for the individual but respect for the local communities. And I think we have a problem with both and whene….