[iDC] Introduction (part 2)
Michael H Goldhaber
michael at goldhaber.org
Thu Jun 25 07:34:00 UTC 2009
Further Introduction:
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.
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.
I live in Oakland, Ca., am writing a novel , and somewhat involved in
local progressive Democratic politics.
Best,
Michael
Michael H. Goldhaber
michael at goldhaber.org
mgoldh at well.com
blog www.goldhaber.org
older site, www.well.com/user/mgoldh
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