In "introductions - your first time", Lisa Kimball <wfs-talk@tmn.com> writes:
Since we've "restarted" this list ... how about another round of introductions?
When did you first become aware of "futures" or "futurists?" How does this awareness figure in your life, your work, your thinking?
My name is Go Simon Sunatori, and I am an electronics engineer. After graduating from McMaster University in Hamilton (Ontario) CANADA, I worked for Northern Telecom and Bell-Northern Research for 10 years until last May when I quit to became a full-time entrepreneur with HyperInfo Canada Inc., still looking for opportunities in information services field. I have tried to obtain US DARPA contracts such as "Research on Text Retrieval and Understanding", but my latest R & D projects are "Personal Information Bank and Intelligent HyperAgent Service", "1-900 Knowledge Processing Centre", etc. Basically, I am trying to push the social interaction from free-format Voice, FAX and E-mail messages to organised EDI-based Knowledge Packets.
I have been a member of the World Future Society since 1979 when I discovered the Futurist magazine in a US Information Centre. I co-founded the World Future Society Ottawa/Hull chapter in 1990, but gave it up due to a growing family (3 kids now) and other concerns. Ever since I dreamed of living in a space station or Moon Base Alpha, I have been looking forward to a better future. Thus, I am not interested in future studies or forecasts, but my purpose in belonging to the World Future Society is to foster long-term thinking towards a positive future which includes electronic democracy, lifestyle automation, dome living, etc. I am preparing a heavily opinionated article commenting on the information superhighway in the context of the development of human civilisation.
But for now, I am living in Cyberspace in my Apple PowerMacintosh 8100/80AV computer with a link to eWorld, National Capital Free-Net and Internet...
