[Dialogue] Fw: [Ailist] Update on Omidyar Network

[Sunny Walker]

This gets more interesting by the minute!
Sunny

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From: "Tom Munnecke" <munnecke at csli.stanford.edu>
To: <ailist at lists.business.utah.edu>
Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 9:42 PM
Subject: [Ailist] Update on Omidyar Network


> Thought this interview
> http://www.omidyar.net/group/community-general/news/213/ would interest
> this group:
>
> By John H. Richardson (Dec 2004 Esquire, p. 222)
>
> "Pierre Omidyar sits in front of me in a blue shirt and khaki pants,
> looking like nobody special. "I think we're on to something," he says.
> "It's about changing the way we think about our roles in communities and
> changing the way we think about fellow human beings."
>
> He's modest but self-assured, cordial but caught up in his thoughts.
> Every so often, I have to remind myself:
>
> The last time this thirty-seven-year-old man had a big idea, it made him
> $10 billion.
>
> "It's a pretty hard problem," he says. "But if we move the needle just a
> tiny bit, it could have great societal impact."
>
> His plan for moving that needle:
>
> Give away all of his money in his lifetime.
>
> Reach down into the very source code of humanity and change a few
> critical lines.
>
> Welcome to Pierre Omidyar's fiendish plot to save the world."
>
>
>
>
> And I've started a discussion thread about ways of "moving the needle"
> that I think would resonate with a lot of AI folks... it would be good
> to get your input... feel free to join the group and post your thoughts
> and experiences.  http://www.omidyar.net/group/podis/news/14/
>
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