I’m very remiss \/ late in posting this…<\/p>\n
Longtime Space Elevator enthusiast, Keith Curtis, the owner \/ maintainer of the Space Elevator Wiki website<\/a> has also created a publication entitled “Software Wars”.\u00a0 From the website:<\/p>\n “The average computer user is unaware there is a war for freedom going on that will determine the path of modern society. Software Wars is a movie about the battle for our right to share technology and ideas. Your phone is perfectly happy to add zero + zero billions of times per second, all day long. The shiny hardware gets the love, but software is the magic behind it all.<\/em><\/p>\n The software we need will not be \u201cowned\u201d by corporations like Microsoft, Apple, and Google, who are mostly impeding technological progress. (Google supports efforts such as Linux via Android, but their AI code in Google Now, language translation and driverless cars are not built in an open way.)<\/em><\/p>\n This software will be built by a global community, taking on problems too big for any one company or team to even understand. We should have been working together all along, but it is necessary now for the few big problems that remain.<\/em><\/p>\n Greater use of free software and the ideas in this movie will lead to faster progress on the Linux desktop, improve the way children learn math, finally build computers that think, decode DNA, and more. The movie’s experts explain what is possible, and the audience decides what happens.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Keith is trying to crowdsource the funding of turning his publication into a movie.\u00a0 You can see the trailer, below, visit the Indiegogo funding site here<\/a>, and read\/view an interview with Keith here<\/a>.<\/p>\n