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A Computer Scientist is Working to Create an ‘Ethical’ Internet

| David Ralph Retuya
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Computer scientist David Magerman made a name for himself as he worked alongside a long time Trump supporter, Robert Mercer. The latter played a significant role in the financial areas of Donal Trump’s electoral campaign in 2016.

After much research, computer scientists discovered that the real enemy on the internet are humans. Majority of his study is derived from large social media platforms like Google, Facebook, and Twitter. These companies have countless employees who have access to their user’s info. And this confidential information is what’s making these platforms earn billions.

David Margerman is fixed on this concept that he was the first to donate $400,000 to break-up Facebook. After this fruitless quest, he started ‘Different Ventures’ together with well-experienced start-up investors Nick Adams and Alex Katz. They all share interests in astronomical data, and the impact social media has in the world.

Magerman’s focus is to create an exciting and new kind of internet that is secure, easy to use and safe. He’s trying to build a version of the internet that compresses the social media titan to only a percentage of their current worth. He believes that doing so will force these platforms to depend on what they do on their users and not the amount of personal information that they get from them.

 The Wisdom Segment

  • I Plants or water sources have not been discovered on Mars, but a lot of sand has been found, due to frequent storms.
  • II The earth's crust is about 40 kilometers thick, but Mars's is thicker. The crust can get as thick as 250km, which is more than 6 times thicker than that of earth.
  • III It is not wrong to also call Mars "the rusted planet", because it is actually covered with rust. The red planet or Mars got its red color from the presence of iron oxide on its surface.
  • IV In 1971, space scientists discovered something interesting about Mars; it could produce water. They also found some volcanoes on the surface of the planet, suggesting that the temperature on the planet wasn't hazardous to the life forms that existed on it.
  • V While trying to name Mars, its color, which appears to be red, was very instrumental to the final decision made. It was named after the god of war, because it looked like blood. However, a nickname was given to the planet along the way- 'the red planet'.
  • VI Recently, it seems like it is very easy to go to Mars and come back without any complications, but it is not really so. Facts from missions to space reveal that only a third of all the missions to Mars have been successful.

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