Cyberdrax of Silicon Valley
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Technology |
| Occupation | Sci-fi Writer |
| Location | Palo Alto, California, United States |
| Introduction | With a B.A. in Math and an M.S. in Cybernetic System, I worked for 40 years in Silicon Valley, first as a process control software engineer, then as an information development writer. Computer technology changed relentlessly over those years. Early projects with the U.S. Navy and NASA pioneered network communications culminating in the Ethernet. I was at Ampex when they developed mag tape and disk drives. Daisy Systems provided the first high res graphical VLSI design eliminating tons of paper. My favorite assignment was at the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center during the Apollo project. I saw the Earth rising over the limb of the Moon; it looked like a blue marbled egg. I thought the Earth looks like an egg — the place where humanity is born, but not destined to live there forever. I enjoyed developing books for both engineering professionals and regular end users. I found building a good book from scratch-notes to finished binding is very satisfying. While working in these roles, I also was enthralled by extrapolations of science fiction with interstellar scope. |
| Interests | Cosmology, Astronomy, Anthropology, Geology |
| Favorite movies | Star Wars series, Star Trek series, War of the Worlds, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Whale Rider, God Father series, Master and Commander |
| Favorite music | Beatles, Howard Cohen, Moody Blues, Al Petteway, Anoushka Shankar, Cat Stevens, David Arkenstone, Doc Watson, Edith Piaf, Enya |
| Favorite books | Master and Commander Series by O'Brian, Dune by Herbert Jr., Moby-Dick by Melville, Bible, Alice in Wonderland by Carrol, Steve Jobs by Isaacson, Elon Musk by Vance, Iliad & Odyssey. |