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Reimagining the Power of One Billion Dollars

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Having just heard the new director of MIT’s Media Lab, Joi Ito , present the Labs’ latest approach to innovation—“Deploy or Die”—I was inspired to answer the question. asked Chris Anderson, head of TED, at the closing session of this year’s conference. billion poorest people?”

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Meet the Nonprofit Hero Behind the Hardware: Charles Brennick

Tech Soup

The winner of this year's award is Charles Brennick, the founder and executive director of the nonprofit refurbisher InterConnection. Charles got interested in this type of charitable work while he served in the Peace Corps in Paraguay in the early 1990s. Paying His Nonprofit Dues. He founded InterConnection in Seattle in 1999.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Of course, very few authors will have the power in practice to negotiate these terms, but it's a long way off before TTS can touch human narration from a market standpoint. We believe that print disabled people should be able to buy accessible books at the same time and at the same price as nondisabled people.

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