Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2021

In this early stage, the metaverse is being envisioned and portrayed as an online reality that we humans enter and experience as avatars through a VR headset, similar to the Oasis experience in the movie Ready Player One. There I was, being virtually groped in a snowy fortress with my brother-in-law and husband watching. Get the idea?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

And my Mom says she’ll never forget that her first knowledge of the events of the day came through my voice, whole and well, telling her to turn on the television. Now we are friends on Google Maps, and I can see his dot throughout his evening commute. And I’d have used Twitter that morning and in the surreal days to come.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Panelists include: Susan Pointer, Google’s Director of Public Policy & Government Relations. The access to information drives knowledge. Andrew Keen: The wall in Berlin was open by accident by a guard, so you could argue that the internet is a distribution of knowledge so that would have never happened.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

Whether the tasks power autonomous weapons systems raining disaster down on slum districts or else power geographic data for humanitarian agencies that provide aid to such disaster zones is knowledge not available to the workers. Google’s use of microwork for a US Department of Defense initiative, Project Maven, is a case in point.

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