[ExI] [wta-talk] [h+] Alex Lightman Appointed Executive Director of Humanity+

[James Clement]

Congratulations Alex!

Best regards, 

James

James Clement
Publisher, h+ Magazine


> From: James.Hughes at trincoll.edu
> To: wta-announce at transhumanism.org
> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 14:16:00 -0400
> Subject: [wta-talk] [h+] Alex Lightman Appointed Executive Director of	Humanity+
> 
> PRESS RELEASE
> 
> For Immediate Release:  August 3, 2009
> 
> Alex Lightman Appointed Executive Director of Humanity+
> 
> Los Angeles, August 3, 2009 - The Board of Directors of Humanity+ is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Alex Lightman as its new Executive Director.  
> 
> "Mr. Lightman brings to the job significant experience in the technology world and H+ is thrilled that he is taking the reins to help grow our organization," said Dr. James Hughes, Secretary, Humanity+.
> 
> About Alex Lightman
> 
> Mr. Lightman is an author, serial entrepreneur, and futurist, who has made significant contributions to the adoption of IPv6, written and spoken on the future of technology since 1985 and has authored numerous articles and a book on technology and society. He is the author of the first book on 4G wireless broadband, Brave New Unwired World: The Digital Big Bang and the Infinite Internet (John Wiley, 2002), which made predictions about the future of computers and communications that are consistent with the actual growth of Internet and mobile technologies.  He has published over 130 articles, including six articles in H+ magazine in 2009, has spoken in over 40 countries, including at the United Nations space conference, at US embassies in Europe and Asia, and at hundreds of conferences.
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> He is currently CTO of FutureMax Group and CTO of the Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Organization, and. His company, Charmed Technology, was a pioneer of wearable computers, and he holds patents in the fields of wearable/mobile/pervasive computing and related communications and software.  He has sold wearable computers to military, industrial and academic users, deployed "Charmed Badges" at locations as diverse as a Navy ship and a CEO conference, and developed the first augmented reality for a live performance, with the UK tour of Duran Duran in 2001. He was the producer of Charmed Technology's "Brave New Unwired World" wireless technology fashion show, which has been performed over 100 times at venues in fifteen countries, including the US, Europe, Asia, Israel, and Australia. Mr. Lightman is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ('83), and attended graduate school at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
> About Humanity+
> 
> Humanity+ is an international nonprofit membership organization which advocates the ethical use of technology to expand human capacities. We support the development of and access to new technologies that enable everyone to enjoy sharper minds, healthier bodies, greater freedoms, and better lives. In other words, we want people to be better than well. Our website is: http://humanityplus.org/
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> Contact: Dr. James J. Hughes, Secretary, Humanity+
> Phone: 860-297-2376 Fax: 860-297-4136 
> secretary at humanityplus.org
> http://humanityplus.org/
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