📍 Pershing & Archer
“Hello all, please consider helping this gentleman. He is selling chips and drinks to gather money for his Dialysis. Please help him if you are in the area. He is on the South East corner of Pershing and Archer. Thank you!!!”
Enabling access to knowledge was one of his main goals in life, as confirmed by many projects he undertook:
He and his colleagues started a digital library in 2007 https://t.co/WGyYPt2Bbu with the goal of becoming an open catalogue of all works that have ever been published.
Aaron Swartz would have been 36 today.
Aaron committed suicide after being sentenced to 35 years in prison by US authorities for transferring and sharing scientific articles from JSTOR.