The Long Now Foundation is hosting yet another incredible Seminar About Long-Term Thinking [SALT] with Iqbal Quadir, in which he will discuss how technology empowers the poorest.

“Iqbal Quadir is the legendary founder of GrameenPhone, which transformed his home country of Bangladesh in the 1990s and led the way for the cellphone revolution throughout the developing world. Currently Quadir heads the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT and is building Emergence BioEnergy Inc., a project to develop electricity for the rural poor, using such devices as a fuel cell that runs on anaerobic bacteria. Linking new technology with the boundless resourcefulness of the poor drives innovation in surprising directions at surprising speed to surprising effect.”

Location: Cowell Theater, Fort Mason, San Francisco,
Time: 7pm, WEDNESDAY, May 21.
The talk starts promptly at 7:30pm. Admission is free (a donation is certainly welcome, not required).