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        <h2 class="speaker-name">A talk by Asim Hussain</h2>
        <h1>Don't be an Idiot</h1>
        <h2>The Topic</h2>
        <p>What if open source isn't a Silicon Valley invention, but the latest manifestation of ancient technology for
          diluting power? The same principles that created democracy in Athens around 500 BC drive modern open source &
          standards creation. As AI handles more tasks, the fundamentally human work that remains is governance, but
          we've forgotten how to make collective decisions. Your role isn't as a builder of something new, but as a
          guardian of something ancient.</p>
        <p>This talk is optimistic but realistic - about human agency rather than human obsolescence. It's not another
          "AI will save/destroy us all" talk. And yes, it's all linked to psychedelics!</p>
        <p class="tags">#Democracy #AncientWisdom #Consensus #AI #DistributedPower</p>
        <h2>The Person</h2>
        <p>Dad bought a Sharp MZ-700 in the 1980s, got it cheap because Sharp had stopped manufacturing them. No games
          in stores, just a BASIC interpreter on tape, a programming manual, and one tape with 10 games. If I wanted
          more games, I had to learn to code them myself.</p>
        <p>On the web: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jawache/">LinkedIn</a></p>
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