From TMUG - The Triangle Macintosh Users Group
April 14, 2008
— Paul Gilster —
Paul Gilster is a writer who focuses on technology and its implications. He is the author of seven books, including Digital Literacy (John Wiley & Sons, 1997) and Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning for Interstellar Flight (Copernicus, 2004), a study of the technologies that may one day make it possible to send a probe to the nearest star. Gilster tracks ongoing developments in areas of interstellar research from propulsion to exoplanet studies on the Centauri Dreams Web site (www.centauri-dreams.org). He is also lead journalist for the Tau Zero Foundation, about to be officially launched. Tau Zero, growing out of work begun in NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Physics program, seeks philanthropic funding to support research into advanced propulsion concepts. In past years, Gilster has contributed to numerous technology and business magazines, and has published essays, feature stories, reviews and fiction in a wide range of publications both in and out of the technology arena. In addition, he has for the last nineteen years written the weekly "Computer Focus" column, which now appears in The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC). Gilster is a graduate of Grinnell College (IA); he did six years of graduate work at UNC-Chapel Hill, specializing in medieval English literature.
Of course we will have our Question and Answer session, sure to be fun and helpful.
Please come and join us in Cary, NC. This will be the last of our checking out new locations meetings. It begins at 6:30 pm, and is free and open to the public.
See you on April 14th!
(Attendance at the April meeting was 47.)
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