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Mark Surman, with Allen Gunn and Michelle Thorne

Founding MozFest Organizers

The Information Age's emphasis on speed over expertise contributes to "superficial culture in which even the elite will openly disparage as pointless our main repositories for the very best that has been thought

The United States, as you point out, has been actually freer than most in terms of offering access to information. It doesn’t have to be this way. Openness is not the default in terms of how if you look back in time, or even around the world. We need to show how openness works better. That you end up with companies that thrive better. That you... See more

There are con -cerns about the responsibilities of researchers and developers who use publicly available data to build AI. Copyright measures are not the best way to address these issues, and open licensing is not the best way to safeguard digital rights and uphold ethical behavior. To address the factors that contributed to the misuse of open... See more

Some Wikipedians remark that their endeavor works in practice, but not in theory.

Each wave of openness – universal franchise, free speech, the movement for an open web, open access content – helps to solve one set of problems and immediately focuses attention on others,

How do you solve that by collecting everything? Because even if you’re collecting it and it’s right there, they don’t want to believe it.

Some may. All we can do is to collect it and make it easily available. What’s exciting to me is that not only can we now see that there are these separate worlds, but also we can see across universes. We can see... See more