Brewster Kahle
Brewster Kahle
Brewster Kahle is an American computer engineer, Internet entrepreneur, internet activist, advocate of universal access to all knowledge, and digital librarian. He is the founder of the Internet Archive, the Internet Archive Federal Credit Union, Alexa and Thinking Machines and a member of the Internet Hall of Fame...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
education learning moon
This (scanning project) is our chance to one-up the Greeks! It is really possible with the technology of today, not tomorrow. We can provide all the works of humankind to all the people of the world. It will be an achievement remembered for all time, like putting a man on the moon.
books-and-reading projects scholars-and-scholarship talk
Other projects talk about snippets. We don't talk about snippets. We talk about books.
dream opportunity library
The opportunity before all of us is living up to the dream of the Library of Alexandria and then taking it a step further - universal access to all knowledge. Interestingly, it is now technically doable
want problem solve
If you want to solve hard problems, have hard problems.
digital great published trying useful works
Wouldn't it be great if you could put all the published works online? The Internet Archive is trying to become useful as a modern-day digital library.