You know, we don't grow most of the food we eat. We wear clothes other people make. We speak a language that other people developed. We use a mathematics that other people evolved... I mean, we're constantly taking things. It's a wonderful, ecstatic feeling to create something that puts it back in the pool of human experience and knowledge.
— Steve Jobs

Statement of Purpose

What's the point of all this technology around us? It's gotta be something more than decreasing costs or increasing productivity or enabling new things or changing the world. Those are empty goals. What do they mean? Exactly how many times over must we change the world? For what?

The real problems in our world are not for lack of technology. What the world really needs is better people, not better technology. So I say we've got to redefine the driving force of technology in that light. The goal of technology has to be to help people become better people.

What does this mean? We've got to help people think for themselves. We've got to help people learn and grow from each other. We've got to help people find meaning in life.

For all the times we've heard "it's not technology that's bad, it's just how we use it," we've been proven wrong. The current medium of computer software engenders the message that we can be lazy. We don't have to remember names or numbers or spellings anymore. We don't have to observe, question, or think anymore. We can just search and browse and copy and paste. We don't have to face problems; we can close and delete and filter them. Patience has been made obsolete. Wisdom has been externalized to the extent that we've gone bankrupt internally.

The software that I'm posting on this page is different. It exists to enrich the creative commons. It seeks to elevate rationality with social-environmental responsibility. Ultimately, it aims to increase the level of cognition and compassion in humans—not computers.

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Genius

Genius helps you memorize things. Genius organizes your information and carefully chooses questions using an intelligent "spaced repetition" method that's based on your past performance. It performs fuzzy answer checking and even highlights errors visually.

Use Genius to study foreign language phrases, vocabulary words, historical events, legal definitions, formal speeches, marketing points, religious texts—anything you need to memorize!

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Development

Genius is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License. Get involved by dropping in the genius-talk forum or visiting the project website at SourceForge.net: Genius.