Is the chosen theme for the web site this year. It's a rather direct reference to my looking back at my life, my career and "what it all means going forward".
For what - to me - seems like a life time, I've played with technology and the future and looked at "whats next". I've worked on technology responses and risk management from Y2K to 9/11. I've been with the most incredible tools and teams on the planet at IBM, Microsoft, Sun. Designed interface generators for medical equipment and worked on technology to give children who had never seen a computer a chance to pick one up and use it on the first try.
And those... are just the highlights.
Future Technologies
Design Technologies
Cultural Technologies
Fringe Technologies
Robert
Jakobson (that would be me)...I'm a veteran of multiple technology engagements with some of the biggest names in software on the planet.
I have an odd habit of writing scripts for automating things - against my better judgement and protesting, these often wind up being applications. (Scripts are for prototypes... you want an app? Deisgn it, Develop it, Test it and build it with a team properly is my usual philosophy. Do not have the insane guy with an idea run loose. It never ends well.)
I also dabble in a number of technology related hobbies from on-line gaming to video effects, digital artwork, social media and of late, restoring old vehicles and auto body work.
My other hobbies seem to be drinking massive quantities of coffee, and using my annoying knowledge of obscure trivia on almost every known subject but sports - to get free coffee from local convience stores. I also have a love of referring to myself in the 3rd person when writing web sites.
