Just wanted to say “hi.”
I live in Belleville and work in ann Arbor. I have three kids at all the school-age levels (grade school, middle school, high school) so educational issues are important to me. I consider myself an agnostic only because I think absolute statements about how and why the universe works flies against my rationalist approach. But I live my life basically as an athiest because William of Ockham talked me into it.
I’m currently trying to develop a Michigan centered futurist website. It’s currently just a blog until I can find enough contributers to grow it into something else.
I have a MySpace page centered mainly around my art addiction.
http://www.myspace.com/doctorkoan
I often let copyediting slide in forum posts even though I do quite a bit of it in my day job.
Other than that, here’s the cut and paste from my profile here…
Seven years as a newspaper technology consultant - over 90 newsrooms in 47 states.
Five years running and writing for the science fiction news site http://www.MarsDust.com
On-and-off stints as a graphic designer and illustrator
Currently a Pagination Crew Chief at the Ann Arbor News, running the Future Michigan Blog and writing a science fiction / bioethics thriller about Detroit called Combustion City Folklore. I also fancy myself an amateur futurist. I sometimes speak on science fiction convention panels about science fiction fantasies emerging in real-world headlines. Below is a link to a panel I was on with Canadian novelist and futurist Karl Schroeder, game designer Ron Hale-Evans and the Foresight Institute’s Christine Peterson. We talk a lot about nanotechnology, human biological modification and the ethics of it all.
http://www.archive.org/details/PosthumanALousyMarketingConcept
