re-post: Universal Access to All Knowledge

itc.conversationsnetwork.org: Brewster Kahle, Digital Librarian, Director and Co-founder of the Internet Archive
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Advances in computing and communications mean that we can cost-effectively store every book, sound recording, movie, software package, and public web page ever created, and provide access to these collections via the Internet to students and adults all over the world.

Brewster Kahle, Digital Librarian, Director and Co-founder of the Internet Archive, has been working to provide universal access to all human knowledge for more than fifteen years. Since the mid-1980s, Kahle has focused on developing transformational technologies for information discovery and digital libraries. In 1989 Kahle invented the Internet's first publishing system, WAIS (Wide Area Information Server) system and in 1989, founded WAIS Inc., a pioneering electronic publishing company that was sold to America Online in 1995. In 1996, Kahle founded the Internet Archive, the largest publicly accessible, privately funded digital archive in the world. At the same time, he co-founded Alexa Internet in April 1996, which was sold to Amazon.com in 1999. Alexa's services are bundled into more than 80% of Web browsers.

LINKS:
itconversations.com: Brewster Kahle: Universal Access to All Knowledge
Internet Archive
Lawrence Lessig: FREE CULTURE
Lessig.org
Wizards of OS: The Read-Write Society