Escaping the Matrix — How we the people can change the world

by Richard Moore. Published by The Cyberjournal Project, Redwood City, California

About the author

Richard Moore
Wexford, Ireland


Author speaking at launch of his first book, The Zen of Global Transformation, in the Wexford Arts Center, September 2002   (click to enlarge)


Education

Stanford University, 1964, B.S. Mathematics, with distinction.


Articles published on various websites

   Global Research • New Dawn • News Beacon Ireland • Serendipity 


Background

Richard focused on math and computer science at Stanford, and upon graduation jumped whole-heartedly into the emerging Silicon Valley scene doing software R&D. He was privileged to work at many of the leading-edge companies of their day, including Tymshare, Xerox PARC, Apple Computer, and Oracle. His specialty was delving into problems that weren’t well defined, where one needed to invent as one went along, and where the risk-adverse seldom ventured.

After thirty years in the software industry, Richard decided that there had to be more to life than commuting and trading days for dollars. He drew out his savings and moved to Ireland, to find out what his life was really about. This change of scene, at fifty-something, turned out be a liberating experience. He found himself able to do all those things he had been too inhibited to pursue back home, such as joining the light opera, acting in stage plays, and playing music in the pubs. Above all, he discovered that his real passion is for writing.

For Richard, writing is a means of learning, more than a means of conveying what he knows beforehand. As other authors have also reported, he has no idea where a piece will end up when he begins. Writing for him is a way of unlocking his powers of observation and analysis, opening a path of discovery that leads wherever it is meant to lead. He offers his work to the world not with, “Look at what I created,” but rather with, “Look at what I found”

This current book represents the culmination of Richard’s ten-year investigation into some of the most fundamental questions of our day: How does the world really work? What could a better world look like? How can we bring about the necessary transformation? As with his earlier endeavors in the computer industry, this was a quest that was poorly defined, and which required invention along the way. And as with those earlier projects, he found that it became necessary to question many of the assumptions that he, and his fellows, had long been taking for granted.


Current projects

cyberjournal.org

moderating a website and email lists that have been in operation for the past ten years, presenting views and analysis, and providing a forum for dialog among cyberjournal community members

creating a web presence for the book, participating in phone-in radio interviews, and generally promoting the book through online networking

creating blogs, linking them in to existing online communities, and generally seeking to tap the potential of the web to facilitate the emergence of creative and empowering online dialog