| Notes |
1997: Got the crazy idea to leave academia (which made my life a lot more interesting, and a lot more stressful) and start a software company, and relocated to New York City to launch Intelligenesis Corp. (later known as Webmind Inc.), a company with the mission of creating a truly intelligent AI system and making money along the way by productizing its components. In early 1997, Gwen and I had our first girl, Scheherazade Okilani Nastasya. My book From Complexity to Creativity, written in Australia and NZ, finally came out in 97. Also, I taught at the College of Staten Island, part of the CUNY system, during 1997-98 while Intelligenesis was getting off the ground.
2001: Webmind/Intelligenesis shut its doors, reducing my paper millions to zero. Around the same time, Creating Internet Intelligence was published — ironic since that book, with its Global Brain focus, summarized a lot of the vision that had gone into founding Intelligenesis in the first place. Moved to New Mexico where I had a research professorship in the Computer Science department of UNM. Lived in Zuzax, in the mountains east of Albuquerque — the second best place I’ve ever lived, after Perth. Founded Novamente LLC, Webmind’s successor; and also Biomind LLC, a company specifically intended to apply Novamente technology to bioinformatics. |