New York (AP) – Technology has prompted many of the personal wealth of philanthropists on the list of the greatest supporters of last year. However, Wendy Schmidt and her husband, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, is quite unusual to demand that their scientific progress be widely shared for the planet’s protection.
In the philanthropies of the Silicon Valley, led by Wendy Schmidt, joined the growing ranks oriented to the maritime preservation from the beginning of the Schmidt Family Foundation in 2006, when the net value exceeds $ 25 billion, will take this role as Trump’s administration reduces millions of federal funding for research.
“We work very hard to make sure science takes our place in our society,” Wendy, Schmidt Family Foundation and the President of the Schmidt Ocean Institute and one of the founders, told The Associated Press. “Here’s how we got where we are. That’s why we use these technologies today.”
Its latest philanthropic company is the Agog: The Immersive Media Institute. Last year, together with the climate journalism Pioneer Chip Giller founded efforts to promote social change by fostering new relationships with the natural world through advanced reality technologies.
The factories are a “fragile home”. A project that investigates transfer through mixed reality headphones that attract consumers through the past, existing and future in Ukraine’s home; And a non -profit organization Kinfolk Tech to help remove communities to reorganize public monuments by applying its digit installations to real world spaces.
The Associated Press recently followed Wendy Schmidt on a JuneThal exhibit in the Brooklyn Bridge Park on the Kinfolk Tech Tech and talked to her about research funding. This interview was edited and truncated for clarity.
Q: What do you expect to achieve using Agogo: at the stunning media institute?
A: (Advanced Reality) Has Huge Power. It has the power to get into the head. It has the power to move you and, in a sense, remove the ego, and it engages you as a participant. You see a story, not just an observer. So it can excite you.
We realized that someone would take it and they would do it really well. And they will probably use it for entertainment and someone will make money with him. But maybe there is a better way to use it. As a philanthropist, I think about what can come from it and how we can use it for the social good and create more empathy in the world, more connections to people.
Q: Why are you relying on diversity and inclusion in this tool when others start similar philanthropic efforts?
A: Well, they don’t go away. Because even when you think of Ai and how you program, if you are not involved, you are definitely not all serving. And when you have the same powerful technology as it is, and those that are more powerful, they must be engaged in design. We work with all our beneficiaries to make sure that we are listening and that their voices are heard and their stories will tell them in this case.
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A: We have continued to do what we have always done, that is, to try to be research and effort to understand our planet in the wall to openly understand that understanding with more people. Because when you see something different, your whole worldview changes. We find in the ocean of things that we didn’t know that we existed, even five years ago. And they should change our thinking about the planet.
So (what happens today in our country) is a really shame. There are many important projects that have lost funding and you cannot save them all. But we do everything we can to plan people on our very wide network of scientists and young doctoral students and after PhDs, researchers everywhere. We expand our possibilities on the Falkor (also) (ocean) research ship. Many people lack funding. We help them get funding so they can fulfill their mission. We do not think science should stop because of what is happening here. In fact, this is more important than ever.
As always, our work as a philanthropist is to take risks – to do what government and industry will often not do. You can’t do everything, but you can do a lot. Especially when it comes to climate and climate science. Climate modeling is an extremely important public health and data monitoring and reporting. When the US does not, there are others who can do it if you create their architecture. And philanthropy can play a very big role in doing so.
Q: How to restore that faith in science?
A: I think experienced (media) is important. One of the things agoge can do is show people the realities they don’t see. People accept what they see on the surface. But when you, for example, bring people to a diving that our robot Subastian does from Falkor (also) and you show them the world that has never seen a person’s eyes, and they testify to what is really on Earth. Then you give them science and say that it is most of life on earth and that it performs this function in your life and in your well -being.
We can help people make relationships when we can show them things, draw their attention, and reveal the most wonderful things they have ever seen, who are here on this planet.
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