My devotion to technology is deep but I know the destruction that enables it.
So I track patterns below the surface that tell a hidden story.
Despite a childhood surrounded by waste rock in a Montana mining town, books
and films were my window on worlds beyond everyday life.
I
knew education was my best road out of hardship. And thanks to the luck
of endless curiosity and a few solid genes, I escaped my fear of being
trapped. Still, that origin, deep as a hard-rock copper mine, lives
within me.
Most of my work life has involved digital technology but I came to it through animation and film production in the 1980's.
Then, computers were introduced as a wonderous relief from the tedious time-consuming work, such as rotoscoping, stop-motion, and matte painting, of creating early movie magic. It was the Internet, though, that captured my imagination.
By chance I happened to be on the campus of Silicon Graphics (SGI) for an early (1990) demo of a new World Wide Web protocol that allowed images as well as text to instantly cross time and space. That demo seemed something akin to a religious experience for everyone in the room and I became an Internet Evangelist.
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