Technology has come a long way since I was hand lettering individual copies of The Monthly Blubonian in 6th grade, or doing wax paste-up of poetry for the high school literary magazine, or the copy machine creations I published with Dominique in college. In '77 my dad started talking about getting a computer. A 12 year old kid talking excitedly at school about floppy disks when no one had ever heard of a computer, went a long way towards establishing my nerd status. Our first computer was an Altos with 64k running CPM, a year later we upgraded to a Northstar Advantage. Computers have been a big part of my life ever since.
Technology is awesome.
As would be expected, I quickly gravitated to the world of desktop publishing, creating books like The Empty City , My Secret World , and the Icehouse Rulebook . I am a hard core Macintosh fan, who is a little ashamed to admit that Alison's PC is actually a rather useful addition to the network here at Wunderland. Today I am creating electronic books on the World Wide Web. I am very glad to be a part of it. In the autumn of '88, I was one of four players for a rules playtest for the game Icehouse which that same co-worker of mine, Andy Looney and his friend John Cooper had invented.