Brewster Kahle
Founder & Digital Librarian
Internet Archive
October 28–30 · Vancouver
Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive. He’ll talk about saving the web, keeping knowledge open, and what a library owes the people who haven’t been born yet.
A different sense of what a library is for, and a debt you'll feel to people who haven't been born yet.
About Brewster Kahle
Brewster Kahle is the founder and digital librarian of the Internet Archive. Since the 1980s, he has built technologies and institutions for discovering, preserving, and sharing knowledge, from WAIS to the Wayback Machine and the Internet Archive. His work is guided by a simple civic ambition: universal access to all knowledge.
Where to find Brewster
- Wednesday · October 287:55–8:35 PM
Public memory, and who it belongs to
Brewster built the Internet Archive. Public memory, the open web, libraries, and what a civic AI owes the people who have not been born yet. Then questions from the room.
Times are Vancouver time and can still move. See the full program
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