FutureMedia

Macintosh Multimedia Professional since 1984. Born in 1947 and raised in Lake Forest Illinois, he graduated from Denver University with a BA in Mass Communications in 1971. During the seventies Taylor worked on a motion picture, performed in and designed audio tracks for the Crested Butte (Colorado) Mountain Theatre and wound up in Santa Cruz California in 1974. A student of new media his whole life, he developed a satellite TV network for the Counter Culture called "New Earth Television" in the late 70's. He spent time with Buckminster Fuller - whom he introduced to Steve Jobs at Apple - Hazel Henderson, Marilyn Ferguson, Alvin Toffler and other alternative cultural luminaries. But with no funding for his dream, he returned to academia in the early 80's attending USC's Annenberg Graduate School of Communications 80-84. While there Coleco released the first inexpensive home computer system "Adam Home Computer". Taylor became the founder and president of "Adam Users of America". He began publishing a newsletter for the organization with two Macs in the summer of 1984. By the first MacWorld expo, he was publishing a magazine digest of all articles on the Mac - "MacBriefs" - with a booth at the first MacWorld Expo in San Francisco January 1985. In the early 90's he was featured on CNN FutureWatch, Business Week and Ad Age for his development of broadcast Still Frame Video newsletters. During these past 20 years with the Mac, Taylor became the foremost videographer of the new media culture's trade show expos and sessions, press events and parties - having shot over 3,000 hours of the 90's in this field. He spent the early 2000's as a Macintosh consultant, learning HTML and as an instructor at the Santa Cruz Senior Computing Center.