Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Aleutian shield fern (Polystichum aleuticum): Started in 2008 in SF, #GoogleIO begins @ 10am PT 5/20/25; With @WorldUnivAndSch (planned in all 7159 living, & extinct languages too #LanguagesWUaS : @sgkmacleod) in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program, how best #PeterNorvig https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 @sundarpichai to #codeWUaS further? * * * lakeportyachtclub.org - great to meet & talk with you, Commodore Kipp Knorr, F May 16 2025 ~ Eventual WUaS representative to Alaska? * * * Don Tapscott May 20, 2025 "Canada Needs a Digital Infrastructure for a New Economy. What is That?"



Started in 2008 in SF, #GoogleIO begins @ 10am PT 5/20/25; With @WorldUnivAndSch (planned in all 7159 living, & extinct languages too #LanguagesWUaS : @sgkmacleod) in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program, how best #PeterNorvig https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 @sundarpichai to #codeWUaS further?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1924846093122339125

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/1924845389985022258

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/1924846781567033522

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/1924848557858947335

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/1924847303426551883

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/1924849521512890657

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/1924849864309195007



Retweeting -

Google Developer Groups

@googledevgroups

Don't want to miss that key #GoogleIO session? We've got you covered! The official live stream schedule is live, helping you navigate all the exciting announcements and deep dives. Plan ahead and maximize your learning.

See the full schedule and start planning →
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https://x.com/googledevgroups/status/1924644909643890999


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lakeportyachtclub.org - great to meet & talk with you, Commodore Kipp Knorr, F May 16 2025 ~ Eventual WUaS representative to Alaska?


Kipp, All, 

As a follow up, but in a completely different direction: 

Would you be interested in becoming accrediting MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School's representative to Alaska in the future, since you went to university in Fairbanks, (graduating in 1973) - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kippknorr/ ?

WUaS is seeking to matriculate students in all 50 US states for free-to-students' MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School degrees (Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, IB high school / similar, AA / AS and Master's) online from home, and to seek reimbursement from US states' department of education, for example. And WUaS is also seeking to build at least 1 physical-digital WUaS Educational Services' store in Alaska for access for example to Lego Robotics' kits, such as Lego Spike Prime which works with the Scratch programming language for #WUaShomeRobotics (as part of degree programs).

Scott




On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Hi Kipp, (Shannon, Victor & Hillary in the City of Lakeport), Peter (Norvig, Google AI Director), Ed (Smyth MD), Luca (Moretti, Lake County field representative in US Congressman Mike Thompson's office CA D4), All, 

Greetings, and great to meet you in person, Kipp as commodore of the Lakeport Yacht Club. I'm writing to follow up in this email thread that I'm not going to proceed with this Lakeport Yacht Club sailing school program. I don't think there's enough time before mid to late June to get instructors, about 5 row boats, and 5 dinghy sailboats in the same class of boats, I also don't think the docks around the Lakeport Yacht Club are somehow sheltered enough for 5-15 year olds (compared with the Cuttyhunk Yacht Club, where I've been an instructor for 3 summers, including head instructor, and having learned to sail. in the CYC since I was 6 or 7 years old).. And I also think you've got a full plate in other ways ... and with holding dinners at the LYC for example, and your membership. 

Am also seeking to move further forward into a newly safe 670 Ridgecrest Road, Canyon, 04516 in the SF East Bay with US federal and state of CAlifornia law working effectively in new ways.

Shannon, Victor, Hillary, Peter, Ed, all - I would like to follow up on exploring developing a possible 'flagship' WUaS Educational Services' Store and with Lego robotics, books, computers, and also groceries .. in the closed Carnegie Library. Could we begin this in August or September ... and with Rohit Kumar, Priyanshu, and other INdians from the state of Haryana  in north India? ... and possibly with a parallel one in the East Bay of the SF Bay Area. These WUaS Educational Services' Store would be partly to welcome and attract marketing students to MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School and for free-to-students' online WUaS Bachelor, AA, IB high school or similar, and other degrees from home. And please see the 2nd part of this blog post with my initial emails to you so far - 
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2025/05/acanthophyllum.html (in daily blog). Will follow up in that thread as well.

All the best, thanks, Friendly regards, 
Scott


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On Sat, May 17, 2025 at 8:12 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Dear Kipp, (all),

Great to meet and talk with you yesterday, F 5/16/25, Kipp. Greetings from Stanford ... Following up brainstorming-wise on envisioning a Lakeport Yacht Club sailing (school) program, (this summer even?) ... 

A Stanford student between his/her 1st and 2nd year as an undergrad, & in the Stanford sailing program (https://gostanford.com/sports/sailing), looking for a summer job - as head instructor? An 8 week LYC sailing (school) program for even 5 to 15+ year olds - from the last week in June to the 3rd week in August? A, B, and C groups. About 5 row boats with oars and 5 10 ft sailboats to start? Two junior instructors, a #2 and #3 who have some sailing experience ... and 2 further assistants (all possibly teenagers) ... so 1 'young-adult' in each row boat or sailboat ... with about 3 kids to a boat ...? Am not sure how to locate about 5 young adults all with some possible sailing experience in just a few weeks, let alone get the boats together. Thoughts?

(In my experience on Cuttyhunk, with all the rowboats and sailboats not under lock and key, accessible from the Cuttyhunk Yacht Club dock - and with the sailboats) on moorings in the Cuttyhunk pond, the sails in the Cuttyhunk Yacht Club house basement where classes usually begin too ... security isn't an issue, and this openness is a boon and wonderful ... but am not sure how this would work at the LYC in the town of Lakeport for example). 

And might I give these instructors an orientation even for a week or so in the 3rd week of June possibly ... and head out on sailboats even with them to get a sense of their seamanship?

Seeking, from my perspective, a diverse group of students for this exploratory Lakeport Yacht Club first possible sailing (school) program  ... Tuition by the week? Post flyers in Lakeport, Clearlake, and Upper Lake, and Middletown ... in the libraries plus? Thoughts?

All the best, 
Scott

PS 
And here's the Sailing wiki subject / school at MIT OCW-centric wiki Wrold Univ & Sch
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sailing
(- for open teaching and learning ... and planned in all ~200 countries and in their main languages too ... and potentially with a developing #RealisticVirtualEarthForSailing.)


PPS
A set of Tweets and a blog post in some of these regards - 


by-the-wind sailor (Velella velella): just emailed you this thru the https://www.lakeportyachtclub.org/contact/ form - Hi Kipp, Great to meet and talk with you at the #LakeportYachtClub & brainstorming about exploring developing a LYC #SailingProgramForKids 
#WUaSsailing 

Pic of Velalla at Rodeo lagoon recently 






Retweeting -



Friday, May 16, 2025
by-the-wind sailor (Velella velella): just emailed you this through the https://www.lakeportyachtclub.org/contact/ form - Hi Kipp, Great to meet and talk with you at the Lakeport Yacht Club just now, and brainstorming about exploring developing a Lakeport Yacht Club sailing program for kids even









On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Dear Kipp, 

I just emailed you this through the https://www.lakeportyachtclub.org/contact/ form. 

Hi Kipp, Great to meet and talk with you at the Lakeport Yacht Club just now, and brainstorming about exploring developing a Lakeport Yacht Club sailing program for kids even. I mentioned you here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2025/05/acanthophyllum.html - and here - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2025/05/northern-goshawk-accipiter-gentilis-m.html = https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2025/05/northern-goshawk-accipiter-gentilis.html - and with regard to World Univ & Sch having met and talked with Lakeport City Counsel people, Victor Fernandez and Shannon Delgado - about MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch too. All the best, Scott GK MacLeod (am a keen daily blogger in some of these regards, and see the 'sailing'- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/sailing - and the 'Cuttyhunk' labels - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Cuttyhunk)


More soon, and all the best, 
Scott






PPS 
And here's the Sailing wiki subject / school at MIT OCW-centric wiki Wrold Univ & Sch 
- for open teaching and learning ... and planned in all ~200 countries and in their main languages too ... and potentially with a developing #RealisticVirtualEarthForSailing.



PPPS
And a set of Tweets re sailing and a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSailing. ... 


Sailboats mostly around #CuttyhunkIslandMA ...

#Sailboats mostly around #CuttyhunkIslandMA 
https://photos.app.goo.gl/PFE46fT5WkrtJSix8 + > a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSailing @ #MITOCW-centric wiki https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sailing where you can #WikiTeach & #WikiLearn  @WorldUnivAndSch How to get to the experience of learning #SmallBoatSailing from home?







where the first picture is of N10 dinghy sailboats, previously called Turnabouts I think ... 


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- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
CC-4 licensed MIT OCW-centric, Wiki, 
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- USPS US Post Office, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516 


1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity 
MIT OCW-centric, 
 World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

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Don Tapscott May 20, 2025 "Canada Needs a Digital Infrastructure for a New Economy. What is That?" 


Don Tapscott
May 20, 2025
Canada Needs a Digital Infrastructure for a New Economy. What is That? 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/canada-needs-digital-infrastructure-new-economy-what-don-tapscott-0n95c/



Canada Needs a Digital Infrastructure for a New Economy. What is That?

Don Tapscott
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman at Blockchain Research Institute I 9X Bestselling Author I 2X TED Speaker I Fighting For Our Future & Advocating For a New Digital Age Social Contract
May 20, 2025

This article originally appeared in The Globe and Mail.

Since U.S. President Donald Trump blew up our global systems for trade and co-operation, one idea unites political and business leaders in Canada: We must build a more resilient, independent economy. Yet most conversations still revolve around tweaking our industrial and resource-driven foundations.

That’s necessary, but woefully insufficient. To boost productivity, achieve sustainable prosperity and ensure national sovereignty, Canada must shift focus to building an innovation economy, fit for the digital age.

Other countries are already acting. If Canada wants to remain a strong G7 nation and thrive, we need a national moon shot – one that retools, re-educates and rebuilds our economy from the ground up.

To start, we must rethink what we mean by infrastructure. In the industrial era, it meant roads, bridges, power grids, water systems and telecom networks – critical assets that moved people, goods and energy.

In the digital era, it must also mean the foundational systems that move data, knowledge and intelligence, and drive innovation and commerce. Canada needs digital public infrastructure.

The first foundational layer is a self-sovereign digital identity for every Canadian. This isn’t about centralized, government-issued IDs that spark fears of surveillance. It’s about giving individuals control over their own data. Powered by blockchain and AI, such a system would let Canadians manage their digital information securely and in a decentralized way.

Core government documents – passports, licences, tax data – would still be included. But so would the wider stream of personal data generated in daily life: health records, transaction histories, education credentials, even location and communications data.

Today, these data are harvested by tech giants and trapped in institutional silos. But if individuals owned and managed it, they could use it to navigate life, seize economic opportunity and protect privacy.

Take health care: at the University Health Network in Toronto, radiology reports already appear in patient portals. Imagine expanding that, such that patients not only access but control their medical data. They could share them with doctors, contribute them to research, or license them commercially – within ethical and transparent frameworks.

The second pillar of digital infrastructure is universal access to artificial intelligence. AI is evolving fast from a productivity tool into a personalized, ever-present digital companion.

By decade’s end, millions of Canadians – especially professionals – will use AI agents to manage tasks, make decisions and augment their capabilities. These “identic” agents will be digital extensions of ourselves, trained on our data and able to act as roles such as work assistants, private doctors, life mentors and financial planners.

But unless we act now, AI will become a new societal fault line. The future’s digital divide won’t be about internet access, but AI access. Those with intelligent agents will be superpowered; those without will fall behind. A small class of enhanced individuals could dominate productivity, creativity and influence. If only a minority of Canadians are equipped to thrive in the digital economy, we will never close our productivity gap.

Every citizen, regardless of income, must have a trusted, safe and capable AI agent, and the know-how to manage it. This doesn’t require government-built tools. But it does require a national effort – a coalition of public institutions, private firms and civil society – to deliver what I call universal basic AI.

Just as we created public education and health care to ensure baseline opportunity, we now need to ensure digital agency in the form of intelligent tools for all.

A third element is public infrastructure for digital commerce. In the past, railways, highways and telecom lines enabled economic activity. Today, we need public rails for digital transactions.

Right now, all Canadian payment systems are privately owned. Banks and intermediaries manage money flows – adding cost, friction and vulnerability. We need a public system where money moves instantly, securely, peer-to-peer, with programmable features and cryptographic trust.

This could be based on a central bank digital currency, issued and backed by the Bank of Canada, or a stablecoin, a privately issued but tightly regulated digital currency pegged to the Canadian dollar and backed by safe assets.

Both options would help modernize financial infrastructure, reduce costs, expand inclusion, boost entrepreneurship and enable next-gen services. Both are misunderstood but could ensure privacy, security and protection from government overreach if implemented properly.

Digital infrastructure also includes transforming physical systems. Roads should support electric and autonomous transportation to create a virtual public transportation system. No multibillion-dollar tunnels required.

Smart contracts enable “smart votes” so citizens can choose both a representative and accountability to policies. Tax filing should be automatic. Learning credentials should be portable and evolve over a lifetime. Food and energy systems should include real-time safety and sustainability data. Carbon emissions should be tracked and audited at the source and across their life cycle.

None of this is speculative. The technologies exist. The capabilities are proven. What’s missing is vision and urgency.

This is our moment. The foundation of the next economy is digital. The first step is building the infrastructure to support it.

Don Tapscott is author of 16 widely read books about technology in business and society, including the best-seller Blockchain Revolution, which he co-authored with his son Alex Tapscott.  He is Co-Founder of BRI, an Adjunct Professor at INSEAD, Chancellor Emeritus of Trent University and a Member of the Order of Canada. His forthcoming book, You to the Power of Two: Human Potential in the Age of Identic AI, is set to be released in Fall 2025.



https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/canada-needs-digital-infrastructure-new-economy-what-don-tapscott-0n95c/




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Society, Information Technology, and the Global University (2025, forthcoming) 

- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
CC-4 licensed MIT OCW-centric, Wiki, 
World University & School (WUaS) 
- USPS US Post Office, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516 


1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity 
MIT OCW-centric, 
 World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 


World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 





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