Brewster Kahle's modest mission: Archiving everything

Author:

Elinor Mills

Subject:

Science and Technology

Grade Level:

Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary

Abstract:

Brewster Kahle is on a mission. He wants the whole planet to have access to human knowledge. All human knowledge. And he's striving to make that possible--one byte at a time.

Ten years ago, Kahle founded the nonprofit Internet Archive, with the goal of preserving the hitherto ephemeral pleasures of the Net for posterity. But, unsatisfied with limiting himself to the saving of Web sites, Kahle decided to broaden his scope and include existing collections of books, television programs, movies and music in the archive's massive digital repository.

Languages:

English

Content Type:

News Stories

Content Topic:

How and Why of OER, Intellectual Property, Technology

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