LOSCON 30 GUEST BIO



Phil Osborn

B.S. Physics - National Merit Scholar - National Mathematics Award for Floyd County, GA.   Graduate studies in clinical and experimental psychology and decision theory.   Further studies at private institutes in Montessori, epistemology, economics, animation and graphics, web design.   Served as active coordinator and conference committee member on numerous libertarian and home-schooling conferences.   Instigated Gang computer program via Sheenway School, Watts in late '70's.   Advised private schools on educational computing thru 1980's.   Served on many SF panels in 1990's and put together / ran Virtual Reality hands-on room at Phil & Ed's XLNT Convention.   Anarcho-Capitalist political activist in 1970's.   Planned and instigated Elliot Mintz's famous 1978 call to the American Embassy in Teheran that started the media circus in Iran.   Advised Sandinistas on how to keep out of war with Reagan/U.S. in 1980.   Currently finishing up authoring a book on a radical critique of "management," titled "Working for the Enemy."