Pen name Jim Brown Role Author Name James Brown | Genre Science fiction Occupation Linguistics Education Bachelor of Arts, PhD | |
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Born James Cooke Brown
July 21, 1921
Tagbilaran, Bohol, Philippine Islands ( 1921-07-21 ) Spouse (1st wife) Lujoye Fuller Brown
(2nd wife) Evelyn Ruth Anderson Children Jefferson(born 1944),
Jill(born 1945),
Jennifer Fuller Brown(born 1965) Relatives Parents: Bryan Burtis Brown and Violet Mary Cooke Died February 13, 2000, Argentina Books The Job Market of the Future: Using Computers to Humanize Economies | ||
Dr. James Cooke Brown (July 21, 1921 – February 13, 2000) was an American sociologist and science fiction author. He is notable for creating the artificial language Loglan and for designing the Parker Brothers board game Careers.
Brown's novel The Troika Incident (Doubleday, 1970) describes a worldwide free knowledge base similar to the Internet. The novel begins with the belief that the world is on the eve of self-destruction, but then it presents a world about a century from now which is a paradise of peace and prosperity, all based on ideas, movements, and knowledge presently available in the world. In its metafictional structure, the novel is a call for social change, not through revolution but through free education and the resilience of human ingenuity. Long out of print and relatively rare, an e-book version (Amazon Kindle) of the novel was released in 2012. The novel envisioned all books and periodicals being viewed on portable electronic devices called "readers" in the year 2070, when it is set.
Among his other achievements, Brown designed, and had built, a three-hulled sailboat, called a trimaran. He utilized this boat to sail to many parts of the world.
While on a South American cruise with his wife, Brown was admitted to a hospital in Argentina, where he died at the age of 78.