In Alex Peake's 28c3 talk video from the Chaos Communications Congress in Berlin, Alex talks about Code Hero as a game gateway into mastering the technology stack and making a planet of makerhoods by creating creative communities.
Alex also spoke at Berlinsides and on Wednesday at 8PM Hamburg time Alex is speaking at Attraktor Hamburg, the first hackerspace on the planet. Pictures and reports from Code Hero's connections with the motherland of maker hacker culture in Germany will follow soon!
Alex Peake spoke at the Open Science Summit 2011 at the Moutain View Computer History Museum about some of humanity's worst investment decisions: rejecting Demoritus' atomic theory, ignoring Galileo's heliocentric astronomy, Napoleon passing on Fulton's submarine until it was too late for it to rescue him, unfunding Charles Babbage's 1860s Difference Engine and Analytic Engine computers, and educational descrimination against women and other "wrong sorts of people" which withheld mathematics from more than half of humanity despite failing to stop Lady Ada Lovelace from learning math and inventing computer software in 1862.
WATCH ALEX'S TALK AT 0:30 HERE followed by a panel run by Mitch Altman with Alex, Mitch, Jimmy and the Stanford Eterna and Foldit team.
Today's challenges demand that we set minds free and abolish educational discrimination to achieve full literacy starting with code literacy so that everyone can explore the world of code and invent the future.
Primer has been Slashdotted! "Can AI Games Create Super-Intelligent Humans?" was picked up by Slashdot from our story on ACCELER8OR, the new transhumanist news nexus by R.U. Sirius, creator of influential cyberpunk magazine Mondo2000. The article is based on Alex Peake's Humanity+ @Caltech talk, with the visually illustrative video below for your viewing while you read along.
Alex Peake presented "Apathy is obsolete: How to empower humanity with social empowerment" at BIL 2009 in Longbeach, CA just after TED 2009 in the same place.
Bill Gates unleashed mosquitos to scare rich people into caring about malaria enough to put an end to this disease that cripplies people in poor nations. The point is to get funding and attention for solving this human health problem.
Alex Peake unleashed butterflies to inspire empowered people to care about human empowerment enough put an end to the apathy that cripples human lives around the world. The point is to get funding and attention for solving this human potential problem.
Apathy is obsolete. The future is already here, it's just not fully developed yet. The Empowerment Platform will change that. But it needs support to get off the ground.
