Hi, I'm Wayne Eddy

Hi, my name is Wayne Eddy.

I've just signed up to the Accelerating Future Wiki, and found my way from there to here.

I've been interested in the concept of a Technological Singularity since I first read "The Peace War" & Marooned in Real Time" by Vernor Vinge" in 1988.

I live in Bundaberg, Australia, which is located about 400km north of Brisbane.

I am a Civil Engineer & I work for Bundaberg Regional Council as Manager Assets.

Of late I have become very interested in Collaboration & Collective Intelligence, and I can imagine a day in 5 or 10 or 20 years time, when most problems will be solved by large groups of people working together using collaborative software tools & expert systems.

My main project at the moment is the Local Government & Municipal Knowledge Base, an attempt to harness the collective intelligence of the Australian Local Government Sector.

I have a beautiful wife & two wonderful children.

I have been playing tennis for about twenty years. .

I used to read a lot of Science Fiction, and some of my favorite authors include; Vernor Vinge, David Brin, Peter F Hamilton, Iain M Banks, Greg Egan, Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle.

I taught myself C++ about 20 years ago, but I have only really ever worked on one project - The Atlas of Habitable Worlds - which I haven't worked on recently, but I might go back to one day.

Lastly I am die-hard Richmond Supporter, for the 99.9% of the world population that that means nothing to, Richmond is an Australian Rules Football Club, also known as the Tigers. Unfortunately we haven't won a flag since 1980, but there is always next year.....

I can be contacted at either:
Wayne.Eddy@bundaberg.qld.gov.au (work)
weddy@bigpond.net.au (home)
darkenfair@gmail.com (everywhere)