Anyone Can Make: Next-Gen Computing
World Maker Faire 2016
October 1st-2nd
What will it take to create a world where anyone can make technology, not just consume it? Make:'s Alasdair Allan and Alex Klein, CEO and co-founder of Kano, look at the rising curiosity we all feel about the computers that surround us and the code that powers them.
Alex Klein
Alex Klein is the co-founder and CEO of Kano, which creates computer and coding kits for all ages, all over the world. His reporting and writing has appeared in Newsweek, The New Republic, New York Magazine, The Nation, The Times of London, BuzzFeed, and other publications.
http://www.kano.meAlasdair Allan
Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker and tinkerer, who is spending a lot of his time thinking about the Internet of Things. In the past he has mesh networked the Moscone Center, caused a U.S. Senate hearing, and contributed to the detection of what was—at the time—the most distant object yet discovered.