<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Further Introduction:</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Since other have done so, I’ll say a little more about myself than I did on the first go ‘round of intros. My professional education was as a theoretical physicist. This was during the Vietnam war, and I became increasingly uneasy with the connection of science and arms. In ’68 I was one of the founders of what became “Science for the People” which was quite active through the ‘70’s, but now has a ghostly presence only as a small listserv (which I moderate). I couldn’t square my work in physics with my political views and eventually decided to leave the field. </span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">In the late ‘70’s I was mostly doing abstract painting and teaching at a small socialist school in Oakland. I spent most of the 80’s at IPS in Washington, DC, where I worked on technology policy and on ways of recasting science to be more open to non-experts. (I can’t say that second program really crystallized.) Relevant to things said on this list, I wrote “Microcomputer Networks: a New Workers’ Culture in Formation”,(Chap. 10 of The Critical Communications Review, Volume I, Vincent Mosco and Janet Wasko, eds.) in which I discussed how such a network might help revitalize labor unions. Also a book “Reinventing Technology:Policies for Democratic Values” ( Routledge ‘86) which takes the view that technological decisions have the force of law and so should should be decided democratically, and I sketched out how that could be done. I had already published “Politics and Technology: Microprocessors and the Prospect of a New Industrial Revolution” (Socialist Review, 52, 1980) , which led me to explore the “information economy.” Out of that work developed my theory that it should really be viewed as an attention economy. For a while I published a sort of zine called “Post-industrial Issues”. I continue to develop the attention economy theory on my blog goldhaber.org. Other recent work can mostly be found online.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">I live in Oakland, Ca., am writing a novel , and somewhat involved in local progressive Democratic politics.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Best, </p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Michael</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><br></p><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Hoefler Text; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Michael H. Goldhaber</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:michael@goldhaber.org">michael@goldhaber.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:mgoldh@well.com">mgoldh@well.com</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">blog <a href="http://www.goldhaber.org">www.goldhaber.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">older site, <a href="http://www.well.com/user/mgoldh">www.well.com/user/mgoldh</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></body></html>