Katherine Maher
If we let ourselves believe that we’re simply a free encyclopedia, we risk losing sight of the power and possibility of our work. Knowledge as always been a tool of power -- great empire and wealth have been built with its service, and great injustice has been done in its name. The very idea of liberating knowledge from power, decoupling it from access and wealth, and placing its construction, utility, and value in the hands of every person on the planet is fundamentally radical.
If we let ourselves believe that we’re simply a free encyclopedia, we risk losing sight of the power and possibility of our work. Knowledge as always been a tool of power -- great empire and wealth have been built with its service, and great injustice has been done in its name. The very idea of liberating knowledge from power, decoupling it from access and wealth, and placing its construction, utility, and value in the hands of every person on the planet is fundamentally radical.