Teenager from Sierra Leone West Africa is Self-Taught Electronics Inventor

15-Year-Old Kelvin Doe is an engineering whiz living in Sierra Leone who scours the trash bins for spare parts, which he uses to build batteries, generators and transmitters. Completely self-taught, Kelvin has created his own radio station where he broadcasts news and plays music under the moniker, DJ Focus.

Kelvin became the youngest person in history to be invited to the "Visiting Practitioner's Program" at MIT. THNKR had exclusive access to Kelvin and his life-changing journey - experiencing the US for the first time, exploring incredible opportunities, contending with homesickness, and mapping out his future.

Check-out David's Crowdrise page: http://www.crowdrise.com/InnovateSalone

Photos courtesy of Adam Cohn (http://www.adamcohn.com/) and Paula Aguilera

Breaking the Spell of Technophobia

Technophobia is the fear or dislike of advanced technology, and complex devices, especially computers.  This episode shows that we as AFRICAN people are indeed Creators, Fashioners, and Makers of Technology and we have a place as the Developers, Programmers, and Designers of the Programs, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Computers that will shape the Highly Technical Advanced Future.

Binary Code is African; The Odus of Ifa are an example of Binary Code; The Drum is an example of Binary Code; "Computer Programming" means "With Ptah before the word"; Cybernetics - the etymological meaning is "the art of governing" - Establishing ORDER or MA'AT; African Statues are built to House Energies just like Robots and Androids; Akuaba are Fertility Statues; Ogun and Nana Adade Kofi are the real "Iron Men" blacksmith African Energies; Hieroglyphics and Griot stories are examples of Virtual Reality; The origin of Technophobia and Techno-Fear-Mongering has its origins with the Religion vs. Science, Vatican Church vs. Illuminati, and Creationism vs. Evolution debates; Technology has already altered DNA; No Human being has been infected by a Computer Virus to date but there has been an Implant in a Human that was infected by a computer virus;  John Henry Thompson comes from an Afro-Centric family and invented the Lingo Computer Programming Language; Philip Emeagwali is a Nigerian African Computer Scientist who developed a super-computer; Herman Chinery-Hesse is a Pan-Africanist from Ghana who is the founder of the SOFTtribe company and considered the father of the African Industrial Revolution

The Ontology of Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO5t98V6VP4