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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Technology for Good: How Nonprofit Leaders Are Using Software and Data to Solve Our Most Pressing Social Problems
Description: Join us to hear from a MacArthur genius awardee, former rocket engineer, and passionate leader in the social enterprise movement—Jim Fruchterman—about using technology for positive social change.
To a lot of people in big business, the only worthy ideas are those that make a lot of money, preferably billions. But Jim Fruchterman believes there is a different path for technology. What if tech returned to its roots and made people more effective and powerful? What if the benefits of technology came to the 90 percent of humanity traditionally neglected by for-profit companies in favor of immense prof...