Alex Peake was interviewed by Hermione Way for TheNextWeb's Startups of AngelHack 2011 about Code Hero and the launch of D2020, a hack the planetathon to inspire developers to create 2020 games to change the world by 2020. D2020 was created and launched by parallel teams at Angelhack and Random Hacks of Kindness SF Hackathon, where it won honors and an XBox Kinect which will serve as a gestural interface testbed for the Code Hero team's UX experiments.
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.
Alex Peake presented "Apathy is obsolete: How to empower humanity with social empowerment" at BIL 2009 in Longbeach, CA just after TED 2009 in the same place.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Apathy is obsolete.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.
