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RCAST 187 [Climate & Coordination] May 6 2022 Guests – Collective Intelligence and pre-web pioneers Jim Whitescarver and Tom Moulton

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Tom Moulton and Jim Whitescarver joined us today. We discussed air pollution in the UK and beyond, and Venture Capitalist John Doerr’s billion dollar gift to Stanford to establish a new climate and sustainability school. We also discussed Jim’s history, collective intelligence, EIES (Electronic Information Exchange System), origins of chat and more.

0:00:00 – Intro

0:01:11 – Nora – Tom Moulton and Jim Whitescarver intros

0:04:00 – Nora – article – https://www.theguardian.com/commentis…

0:10:49 – Nora – article – https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/0…

0:15:17 – Darryl introduces Jim – Jim talks about his earliest days with computers. 0:19:46 – Jim shows video from the RChain Governance Conference

0:26:10 – Murray Turoff – first chat program in 1971 – EIES – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro…

0:27:29 – Tom Moulton was an earlier programmer on EIES

0:31:06 – Darryl asks – what was EIES attempting to accomplish?

0:32:16 – Darryl asks about what Jim thinks of the blue sky open source social network protocol? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky…)

0:36:23 – Nora asks Greg to share his idea – going to classrooms

0:42:18 – Darryl – Eben Moglen speech 2010 – Freedom in the Cloud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOEMv…

0:47:46 – Darryl – how do you have provenance if some of the things are off chain?

0:48:35 – Greg – search – even on private communication – RChain architecture allows for private. Being able to do search is vital.