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I'm Bill McDaniel with Adobe's Advanced Technology Lab in the Office of Technology. This blog contains miscellaneous thoughts on the social impact computing has made and will make on society. My own personal interests range from how people use computing to how we will package and consume computing in the future.
However, I am also an observer of pop culture and consider it vital to our society. For example, I am a Buffyologist; a person conducting academic research and criticism around Buffy The Vampire Slayer and other works of Joss Whedon. It's OK to giggle...our collective noun for ourselves is a 'ridicule' of peers! Check out Slayage, the Peer Reviewed Journal of Buffy Studies for details.
Some current interests include the anime TV show "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex" and art that explores the intersection or union of digital and human aspects. I also collect fine art photography, interesting chess sets, comics, and way too many books.
I have about 40 years of computing experience, 30 years professionally, and have, in the last 15 years, owned software companies (2), created the first high speed print data stream conversion suite (GenText AFP2PS and AFP2PDF), been CTO of several small to medium sized companies (5), opened the first internet cafe in North Texas (Cafe Cybre), invented an interesting ubiquitous computing application (Blustor), and finally came to Adobe in 2004 to work on issues around the future of documents, publishing, and computing as speech act.
So far it's been the most enjoyable position I've held in many years!