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Reimagining the Power of One Billion Dollars

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I believe such an investment in technology-for-good innovations could open up new frontiers for tackling the toughest problems of the world’s poorest populations, from poverty to disease to social injustice. Now is the time to apply an agile approach to innovation—Joi Ito’s “Deploy or Die” at scale, if you will—to social sector problems.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My main point is that the two high grounds are not the name in impact. We did some exploration of the likely impacts on the market for audio books: that seems to be one of the major policy concerns about the text-to-speech issue. Authors are fighting over how much money they get: it’s clear that they are being paid.

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