November 1, 2016 at 13:09Mitch Kapor: business in the lotus position, second life and electronic frontier
"Information wants to be free, this is true in any field, not only in information technology."
Today marks the 66th anniversary of Mitch Kapor .
The program was called 1-2-3, as it included 3 elements: tables, graphs, and basic database functionality.
Lotus 1-2-3 was first introduced on January 26, 1983 and during the first year the sales volume of the program exceeded the most popular VisiCalc table program before. In the following years, it was the most used spreadsheet program for the IBM PC. Its popularity was largely determined by the faultlessness and high speed of work; the latter was achieved due to the fact that when writing the program, assembly language was widely used, and the output to the screen worked without using relatively slow BIOS calls by directly writing to video memory. [ Wikipedia ]
Second Life is a three-dimensional virtual world with elements of a social network, which has over 1 million active users. The project was developed and launched in 2003 by Linden Lab .
Linden Lab was founded in 1999 with the goal of creating a revolutionary way of sharing cognition in three-dimensional space. At the beginning of work on Second Life, the goal of Rosdale (the founder) was to show an effective model of virtual society and economy. He himself notes that he is building not a game, but a new country ("I'm not building a game. I'm building a new continent").
Second Life characters. The
cash flow as a result of transactions between individual users in 2009 amounted to 450 million. dollars.
Relationship in Second Life Filmed "Are you there? "
But perhaps humanity is not yet ready for “depth” and permissiveness, as Lem and Lukyanenko described.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation was formed in July 1990 by John Gilmore, John Perry Barlow and Mitchell Kapor in response to a series of actions by law enforcement agencies that made it clear that the authorities had significant information about new forms of communication on the Internet and that there was a need to strengthen the protection of civil liberties on the Internet.
The field of activity includes the support, development and development of new bills to protect the civil rights of users, the strategy of the general requirements of censorship, the diversity of communities, etc. It exists through contributions from individual members and corporations [1]. EFF has been involved in litigations against organizations such as the US Department of Justice, Apple, Sony BMG, and AT&T.
EFF promptly helps Snowden with lawyers, and even (rumored) promised SciHub support.
EFF has launched the Pioneer Awards for leaders in freedom and breakthrough IT technology. His co-founder, Mitch Kapor, was awarded in 2005.
EFF also has a prize for large prime numbers. In 2009, they paid $ 100,000 for " 2,431,1609 -1."
Useful article: Self-protection from listening .
“Geniuses are evenly distributed by zip code, but there is no possibility.”
(“Genius is evenly distributed by Zip code but opportunity is not”)
Kapor emphasizes diversity as a key factor, and in support of his words, has allocated $ 40 million to invest in supporting initiatives of women and other “minorities” in the field of IT.
“Creating startups is now so simple, in a way, that we often confuse two things:“ How far can we go on the first day of travel ”and“ How long does it take to get to the top of the mountain? ”
Mitch also considers The Next Big Thing Wikipedia in the field of IT .
“I think that in Silicon Valley they do not understand the full power of Wikipedia, how it works and what opportunities it opens up, including for business. Wikipedia implements a great way to compile collections of information on any topic. This technology is easy to apply to any other tasks. ”
Today marks the 66th anniversary of Mitch Kapor .
- In 1971 he studied psychology, linguistics and computer science at Yale, management and economics at MIT.
- In 1982 he founded Lotus , where they made the first software for Apple ll.
- Mitch Kapor chose the name "Lotus" because he was engaged in yoga.
- In 1983, Lotus became the third largest computer software company in the world.
- In subsequent years, Lotus 1-2-3 was the most used spreadsheet program for the IBM PC.
- 1990 - Co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation .
- In 2003, he invested in Second Life and the Mozilla Foundation .
- He is an active investor in the early stages (Dropcam, Twilio, Asana, Cleanify, Uber).
Lotus
The program was called 1-2-3, as it included 3 elements: tables, graphs, and basic database functionality.
Lotus 1-2-3 was first introduced on January 26, 1983 and during the first year the sales volume of the program exceeded the most popular VisiCalc table program before. In the following years, it was the most used spreadsheet program for the IBM PC. Its popularity was largely determined by the faultlessness and high speed of work; the latter was achieved due to the fact that when writing the program, assembly language was widely used, and the output to the screen worked without using relatively slow BIOS calls by directly writing to video memory. [ Wikipedia ]
Second life
Second Life is a three-dimensional virtual world with elements of a social network, which has over 1 million active users. The project was developed and launched in 2003 by Linden Lab .
Linden Lab was founded in 1999 with the goal of creating a revolutionary way of sharing cognition in three-dimensional space. At the beginning of work on Second Life, the goal of Rosdale (the founder) was to show an effective model of virtual society and economy. He himself notes that he is building not a game, but a new country ("I'm not building a game. I'm building a new continent").
Second Life characters. The
cash flow as a result of transactions between individual users in 2009 amounted to 450 million. dollars.
Relationship in Second Life Filmed "Are you there? "
But perhaps humanity is not yet ready for “depth” and permissiveness, as Lem and Lukyanenko described.
vidos for 34 million views
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation was formed in July 1990 by John Gilmore, John Perry Barlow and Mitchell Kapor in response to a series of actions by law enforcement agencies that made it clear that the authorities had significant information about new forms of communication on the Internet and that there was a need to strengthen the protection of civil liberties on the Internet.
The field of activity includes the support, development and development of new bills to protect the civil rights of users, the strategy of the general requirements of censorship, the diversity of communities, etc. It exists through contributions from individual members and corporations [1]. EFF has been involved in litigations against organizations such as the US Department of Justice, Apple, Sony BMG, and AT&T.
EFF promptly helps Snowden with lawyers, and even (rumored) promised SciHub support.
EFF has launched the Pioneer Awards for leaders in freedom and breakthrough IT technology. His co-founder, Mitch Kapor, was awarded in 2005.
EFF also has a prize for large prime numbers. In 2009, they paid $ 100,000 for " 2,431,1609 -1."
Useful article: Self-protection from listening .
Startups and the search for geniuses
“Geniuses are evenly distributed by zip code, but there is no possibility.”
(“Genius is evenly distributed by Zip code but opportunity is not”)
Kapor emphasizes diversity as a key factor, and in support of his words, has allocated $ 40 million to invest in supporting initiatives of women and other “minorities” in the field of IT.
“Creating startups is now so simple, in a way, that we often confuse two things:“ How far can we go on the first day of travel ”and“ How long does it take to get to the top of the mountain? ”
Mitch also considers The Next Big Thing Wikipedia in the field of IT .
“I think that in Silicon Valley they do not understand the full power of Wikipedia, how it works and what opportunities it opens up, including for business. Wikipedia implements a great way to compile collections of information on any topic. This technology is easy to apply to any other tasks. ”