WTN honours Morpheus’ Weiss
p2p news / p2pnet: The entertainment cartels are doing their level best to use America’s legal system to crush what amounts to their only competition, the p2p application companies.
However, the prestigious World Technology Network has voted the man who runs one of them into its ranks
StreamCast Networks ceo Michael Weiss is among the network’s new members and as such is now eligible to be selected for its 2005 World Technology Award in the Entertainment category.
“By working to make useful connections among our members, we look forward to assisting Mr Weiss in continuing to help create our collective future and change our world,” said WTN founder and chairman James P. Clark.
Among others voted in this year were WWW creator Tim Berners-Lee, Skype’s Niklas Zennstrom, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, Lawrence Lessig, and the EFF’s (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Fred von Lohmann.
The WTN honors individuals and corporations from 20 technology-related sectors viewed by their peers as being the most innovative and whose work has the greatest likelihood of long-term significance.
Award categories include biotechnology, communication technology, energy, environment, finance, health and medicine, IT hardware, IT software, materials/nanotechnology and space.
The WTN is at the same time a global meeting ground, a virtual think tank and an elite club whose members are all focused on the business and science of bringing important emerging technologies of all types (from biotechnology to new materials, from IT to new energy sources) into reality.
The World Technology Awards Gala ceremony, held in association with TIME magazine, CNN and Science magazine among others, will take place on November 15th, 2005, at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, California. The Gala will conclude the two-day World Technology Summit.
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