Profile: Anne Toll

Personal background
I am 70 years old. I am a retired library director. I was one of a group of library directors who were responsible for automating public libraries in Rhode Island and I was the 1st President of C.L.A.N.(Cooperating Libraries Automated Network). Any resident of Rhode Island now only needs 1 library card to use any public library in Rhode Island and has access to the all the holdings of member libraries. Cooperation and cooperative efforts work!!
I have been reading science fiction since I was a pre-teenager so the seti@home project seems a very believable and doable project. If we ever contact aliens maybe it will force nations on earth to cooperate while dealing with an outside force. World peace would really be a unique experience.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I am sure extraterrestial life exists, but in what form? Who knows? But knowledge is always better than ignorance.
Preparing for alien contact and keeping an open mind about its possible form is better than being taken by suprise and then doing something stupid. Though preparation does not automatically prevent stupidity.
Of course humans should send a beacon, but I don't know what information we should send. How can we know how it will be interpreted?
I run seti@home becuase it is a worthwhile project, even if it takes 100 years or more to contact any ETs. I am old enough that instant gratification is not part of my mind set. Though it would be wonderful to hear of contact during my lifetime.
The attached photograph is of my husband, James, and myself.
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