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About Me

I want to establish the new science of Civilization Design.

But before I do that, I'm going to try to work with Google to create free University education, which is possible and will be lucrative and insanely profitable---if I can ever get them to listen to me.

My plans sound so naive at a first glance that it's been very difficult to even get anyone to listen to me seriously. At the moment I'm trying to write an effective business proposal to Google.org to try to garner their interest, since the previous three I sent to Google.com elicited no response whatsoever.

Location:
United States, San Antonio, TX
Gender:
Male
Areas of expertise:
Simplifying, Thinking in a big-picture sense, Communication - both verbal and nonverbal, Determinging whether or not a book is worth reading by reading a
I am:
Artist, Atheist, Designer, Educator/Teacher, Environmentalist, Idea generator, Philanthropist, Scientist, Student, Writer/Editor
Languages:
English
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I'm passionate about

Everything, but most specifically the preservation of the human race.

An idea worth spreading

If Google actively organizes the course webcasts of Berkeley, MIT, and other interested Universities, they will be forming the base for a free online univerisity.

If they invest a few million dollars into creating a free online textbook database, they will be even closer to creating a free online university.

If they make a program that scientifically gauges the interests and fortes of their online students, they will be able to, for the first time in history, be able to build personalized class curricula based on the strengths and weaknesses inherent in each student.

If they partner with CLEP and other college-credit organizations, they'll be very much so well on their way to creating an accredited free online education program.

And once all that is done, well, there are more things to do. If my description has tantalized you thus far, feel free to contact me and I can tell you the rest of my plan to create free education.

Talk to me about

Anything. Plus, civilization design.

People don't know that I'm good at

Simplifying things and seeing the big big big picture.

My TED Story

?? I went looking for information on Larry Brilliant because I'm in the process of writing a letter to him, and found his speech on the Google.org site which linked to this site. I am hoping against all hope that someone might see this information and work with me, for I am in desperate need of help.

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