| Personal background |
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GWM, 45, semi-retired computer industry (Apple, Sun Micro) and dotcom (three startups) exec.
Born Nashville TN. BS Biology/Chemistry Samford Univ. 1979, but then found computers more interesting. Designed & built printing industry's first automated full-page computer-to-film system for telephone Yellow Pages, 1980-82. Joined Apple 1987, moved to Silicon Valley, 1992. Set up Apple's first internet-based server to "seed" developers with pre-release software, put MacTCP into System7, shipped OpenTransport v1.0-1.5. Joined Sun Microsystems, 1997. Built Sun Developer Connection, launched Sun Startup Essentials. Left the craziness behind and returned to Nashville, 2001, to open creative services agency (984design) focusing on digital media and to persue second career as visual artist.
Most interesting / influential books include At Home in the Universe by S. Kauffman, The Selfish Gene by R. Dawkins, Influence: Science and Practice by R. Cialdini, A History of Knowledge by C. van Doren, Six Hat Thinking by E. de Bono, Out of Control by K. Kelly, The Life of the Law by A. Knight, Please Understand Me by D. Keirsey & M. Bates, and 365 Tao by Deng Ming-Dao.
Other interests include home theater, cooking, trance music. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I feel certain that extraterrestrial life, in fact intelligent extraterrestrial life exists. I am not at all certain, however, about what place humankind may hold in terms of evolutionary development … are we at the leading or trailing edge of civilization, intelligence, technology, healing, the arts? I doubt that we are at either extreme on any front, but that only leaves me wondering what might be the range of these attributes across worlds. Will some future intergalatic sociologist find that all intelligent life forms fit inside a Bell curve within /- 1 std dev of some cosmic "norm". Or will the challenge be to recognize intelligent life as such when the first encounter occurs?
I run SETI for a very simple reason … I'm curious, and I enjoy working with / helping other curious people explore. |
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