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We need to understand
software
as well as just giving someone hardware.
And I was looking for some kind of food theme, and I wrote some
software
to automatically lay out french-fry images.
How can a skilled worker compete with a $39 piece of
software?
Animation, software, moviemaking software, they have it all.
And that began with open-source
software.
We built
software
and partnered with utility companies who wanted to help their customers save energy.
And it's that choice that I want to focus on, because as we migrate lethal decision-making from humans to software, we risk not only taking the humanity out of war, but also changing our social landscape entirely, far from the battlefield.
And that means visual intelligence
software
will need to scan it for items of interest.
So we came together and we created
software
called Ushahidi.
And the idea of the
software
was to gather information from SMS, email and web, and put a map so that you could see what was happening where, and you could visualize that data.
And after that initial prototype, we set out to make free and open-source
software
so that others do not have to start from scratch like we did.
And we were able to grow this
software
footprint, and a few years later it became very useful software, and we were quite humbled when it was used in Haiti where citizens could indicate where they are and what their needs were, and also to deal with the fallout from the nuclear crisis and the tsunami in Japan.
Ushahidi is not only the
software
that we made.
The
software
sensibility at Ushahidi is still at play when we wondered how can we use the cloud to be more intelligent so that you can analyze the different networks, and whenever you switch on the backup, you pick on the fastest network, so we'll have multi-SIM capability so that you can put multiple SIMs, and if one network is faster, that's the one you hop on, and if the up time on that is not very good, then you hop onto the next one.
So these guys are distributing technology, getting
software
capacity out there, but they're not actually flying around the world.
And so I thought, what would happen if we built
software
to do what I'd been consulting in?
Instead of training people how to put forms onto mobile devices, let's create
software
that lets them do it themselves with no training and without me being involved.
So we created
software
called Magpi, which has an online form creator.
One of my favorite examples, the IRC, International Rescue Committee, they have a program where semi-literate midwives, using $10 mobile phones, send a text message using our software, once a week, with the number of births and the number of deaths, which gives IRC something that no one in global health has ever had: a near-real-time system of counting babies, of knowing how many kids are born, of knowing how many children there are in Sierra Leone, which is the country where this is happening, and knowing how many children die.
I think of us humans as "Life 2.0" because we can learn, which we in nerdy, geek speak, might think of as installing new
software
into our brains, like languages and job skills.
"Life 3.0," which can design not only its
software
but also its hardware of course doesn't exist yet.
And the most impressive feat here wasn't that it crushed human gamers, but that it crushed human AI researchers who had spent decades handcrafting game-playing
software.
So we have a piece of paper with conductive ink on, and then add onto that a small circuit board with a couple of chips, one to run some capacitive touch software, so we know where we've touched it, and the other to run, quite often, some wireless
software
so the piece of paper can connect.
So it's wirelessly linked to my iPad, and this is a
software
that's running on the iPad.
What about the data and communication
software
which we need in the future?
Now, in a group with so many IT people, I do have to mention what I'm not going to talk about, and that is that your field is one that has learned an enormous amount from living things, on the
software
side.
That's on the
software
side.
This is a virus pretending to look like antivirus software, and it will go through and it will scan the system, have a look at what its popping up here.
Some of them are just randomly assembled by
software.
Your real audience for this stuff is
software.
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