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I’ve prided myself as an early adopter of all things technology based. Well actually, that’s not true. As a child I immersed myself into a fantasy world of Sci Fi. I spent most of my time as a child daydreaming and sketching blue prints of homes, space station and vehicles of the future. School works was not my primary concern back then. My imagination knew no limits and I dreamed of the day we’d have these things.

Fast forward to the future

Well, our future is a lot different than I envisioned. As a child of the 60′s our race to the stars confirmed our commitment to space exploration and the promise of colonization of other worlds. Sadly, we’ve lost the passion generated in those competitive days of the Camelot era as the US raced to be the first nation to put a man on the moon. The visions of a world of worlds sadly won’t happen in our lifetimes, as the dreams of our leaders died rather abruptly with them. Space exploration will have to wait as our economy will take decades to repair.

Cue the Internet

Up until 1995 my life was pretty lack luster. I dreamed of traveling the stars but that would never happen. Luckily, one way to explore that had been foreseen and written about was the Internet. “The Net“ saved my life by giving me an outlet that exposed me to an entire world of knowledge and people I would never meet otherwise. With the Internet, I learned new skills and created opportunities for myself, made a living, purchased a home and gave my life a purpose.

My passion

Above and beyond the various skill-sets I’ve developed over the years, the idea of how people use the Internet has always intrigued me. Being here as long as I have, I’ve seen trends die and become reborn on more then one occasion. Watching people discover these things and how they use them is what drives me to learn. Documenting the things they do has become my passion. It’s understanding people and predicting their actions around technology that gives me my hope for the future and the fact that I can have a hand at shaping it is very important to me.

Ultimately, through social networking we’ll learn the sum of our parts and grow towards a global understanding of our place in this universe. The stability of our world depends on man’s unique ability to affect change in our environments. Just as man destroys, man can rebuild. The promise of a world where drawn borders are erased is the future. The Internet has become my passion for the future.

-tm