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"PrimaGIS and ka-Map—two of the more interesting Web-based, open-source mapping resources) to share real-time imagery and other spatial data. In a matter of days, evacuees could log on from wherever they found themselves, enter their home address, and assess their neighborhoods through high-resolution, color aerial photos." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Developing countries with an open-source approach also become participants, internationally, in a collaborative culture of problem solving, which has implications far outside the realm of software. Collaborative innovation is smart in the Global North, but it changes the game in countries with lots of smart young people and not much cash. As science-fiction writer William Gibson says, "The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet." Brazil realizes it has limited ability to change the global system to redistribute wealth, but it's in a perfect position to redistribute the future." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "By embracing open-source technologies and design [see Dpen Source, p. 127], and removing barriers to the improvement, distribution, and implementation of well-designed solutions, we can, more than ever before, ensure that people in crisis receive innovative, sustainable, and, most importantly, dignified shelter. Since the mid-1990s, the sharing of information and technology has steadily gained popularity in the high-tech and arts communities. Why not adopt this approach in the area of humanitarian reconstruction and long-term development?" - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Imagine a system that watched how different people learn, observed what teaching techniques work best for different topics and types of students, and then made all this information available —on top of a vast library of open-source teaching material. This is a challenge for the next wave of open source; meeting that challenge will require a marriage of technical advances and social insight. Every good teacher has some understanding of how students can learn effectively, and most students can identify what tools or techniques help them learn." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"It could, in short, transform hardware manufacturing much the way the "open-source" movement has changed how software is written. .. . Jacobson contends printed logic could give rise to an open-source hardware movement where chips are custom-designed via the Internet and printed by the consumer in about the same time it takes to print out a Web page. You could, says Jacobson, "download the chip design from the Web, tie in some modifications from some guy in India, and boom-out comes the device." - Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Get the book.)

"The wisdom of their work, according to computer scientists, lies in its farsighted simplicity, designing a set of minimalist standards in an open-source model that others can build upon. It is the same design philosophy, they note, found in the original Internet and the Web. Today, most grid projects remain the province of supercomputing centers and university labs. The research centers are linked by network connections about 20 times as fast as the standard high-speed connections and are equipped with storage systems able to handle vast data files and high-performance computers." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

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