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Linuxcon: Open Source Peer Collaboration Could Save the Planet

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Sean Michael Kerner
Aug 17, 2015

Global warming, income inequality and access to opportunity are three of the great challenges of our time, and they are three challenges where open source peer platforms could play a role.

Speaking at the Linuxcon conference here, Robin Chase, founder of Zipcar, discussed her views on how an idea she refers to as ‘Peers Inc’ could quite literally save all human life on planet Earth.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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