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Technology Has Shaped Human Knowledge for Centuries. Generative AI Is Set to Transform It Yet Again.

Singularity Hub

Generative artificial intelligence is a revolutionary new technology able to collect and summarize knowledge from across the internet at the click of a button. Often described as a new reality of speaking many-to-many, the internet provided a means for people to communicate, share ideas, and learn.

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Jimmy Wales is selling his first Wikipedia edit as an NFT

The Verge

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales is selling a non-fungible token (or NFT) based on his first edit of the free encyclopedia. Auction house Christie’s will hold a sale of the token from December 3rd to 15th, auctioning it alongside the Strawberry iMac Wales was using around Wikipedia’s launch. Jimmy Wales / Christie’s.

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Viva Tel Aviv: Meet the 6 amazing startups launching at Techono.me today

The Next Web

Evidently, the app only enables connections between people who are open for a (new) relationship as indicated in their Facebook profiles and the information that can be searched and viewed is all public. Examples: revamped versions of Wikipedia and Craigslist.

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Campus Party H4SB — Hacking for Something Better Coming to US in 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is major emphasis on what is possible when ingenuity, 11K gb internet connections and collaborative teams intersect. In the States, nonprofits have generally concentrated on the relationship between the volunteer and the organization receiving services, with a spiffy volunteer interface in the middle. Welcome to the U.S.,

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. We visualize networks in a different way.

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My Latest President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Janet Kornblum Janet Kornblum began writing about technology in 1994 when she was deemed the newsroom expert because she could actually log on to the Internet. Ryan Fan Before Ryan Fan, a high school senior, came to Benetech for his school’s career day, he consulted Wikipedia to understand this concept called “social entrepreneurship.”

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Mark Pesce at CUA09 - Think Like a Cloud, Make a Storm, Kill the Tower!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The same sort of engine which powers Wikipedia can be put to work across a number of different “platforms”. Hyper connectivity among employees has the potential to increase security risks due to lost hardware, software, internet transfer of files, etc. They use many more devices, channels, and tools then "regular" people.

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